Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 2

But, just at the time when my story begins, the good lady was very busy, because she had the care of the wheat, and the Indian corn, and the rye and barley and, in short, of the crops of every kind, all over the earth; and as the season had thus far been uncommonly backward, it was necessary to make the harvest ripen more speedily than usual.

Who acts: story, good lady, season, busy, wheat · What happens: begin, be, have, make, ripen, care · To what, where: care, harvest

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 (story, good lady, season, busy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 busy	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 time	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 busy	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 begins	mark
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 story	nmod:poss
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begins	nsubj
10	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 time	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lady	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 busy	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 busy	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 busy	advmod
17	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 ripen	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 busy	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 care	det
23	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 wheat	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wheat	det
26	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 care	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 corn	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 corn	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 corn	det
30	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 corn	amod
31	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rye	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rye	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rye	det
35	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 busy	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 barley	cc
37	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rye	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 short	cc
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 short	punct
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 short	case
41	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 rye	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 crops	punct
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 crops	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 crops	det
45	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 short	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 kind	case
47	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	48 kind	det
48	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 crops	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 earth	punct
50	all	all	ADV	_	53 earth	advmod
51	over	over	ADP	_	53 earth	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 earth	det
53	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 crops	conj
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	68 necessary	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 necessary	cc
56	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 had	mark
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 season	det
58	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 had	nsubj
59	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 necessary	advcl
60	thus	thus	ADV	_	64 backward	advmod
61	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	64 backward	advmod
62	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	64 backward	cop
63	uncommonly	uncommonly	ADV	_	64 backward	advmod
64	backward	backward	ADV	_	59 had	advmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 had	punct
66	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 necessary	expl
67	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 necessary	cop
68	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 busy	conj
69	to	to	PART	_	70 make	mark
70	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 necessary	csubj
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 harvest	det
72	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 make	obj
73	ripen	ripen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
74	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	75 speedily	advmod
75	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	73 ripen	advmod
76	than	than	ADP	_	77 usual	case
77	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 speedily	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	73 ripen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present	my story				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	the good lady		time	busy property	tree rules
3	have	past	story	the care of the wheat			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient
4	have	past	the season				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	participle				backward, far, thus, uncommonly property	tree rules
6	is	past	the good lady not said here			necessary property	tree rules
7	make	to-infinitive		the harvest			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset harvest=Product
8	ripen	present	busy			speedily property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	care		the wheat				nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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