Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 13

By way of showing her gratitude, the child besought them to go with her a little way into the fields, so that they might gather abundance of flowers, with which she would make each of her kind playmates a wreath.

Who acts: way, child, dragons · What happens: show, beseech, go, gather, make · To what, where: gratitude, dragons, little way, fields, abundance, each

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, child, dragons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 way	case
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 besought	obl
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 showing	mark
4	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 way	acl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gratitude	nmod:poss
6	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 besought	nsubj
10	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 besought	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 besought	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl:unmarked
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 fields	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fields	det
21	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gather	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 gather	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gather	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 gather	aux
27	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
28	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gather	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 flowers	case
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 abundance	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 make	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 make	obl
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 make	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 make	aux
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 gather	conj
37	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 make	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 playmates	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 playmates	nmod:poss
40	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 playmates	amod
41	playmates	playmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 each	nmod
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 wreath	det
43	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 playmates	nmod:unmarked
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 besought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	gerund	way not said here	Proserpina's gratitude			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Recipient
2	beseech	past	the child	dragons = dragon		by way	tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	the child not said here	a little way	the fields	with Proserpina	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
4	gather	might	dragons = dragon	abundance of flowers			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abundance=Theme
5	make	would	child	each			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Product

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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