Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 36

It bore above a hundred flowers of the most brilliant hues, and each different from the others, but all having a kind of resemblance among themselves, which showed them to be sister blossoms.

Who acts: beauty, all · What happens: bear, have, show, be · To what, where: hundred flowers, kind, others, sister blossoms

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 (beauty, all), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bore	nsubj
2	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	above	above	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 flowers	nummod
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bore	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 hues	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hues	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 brilliant	advmod
10	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hues	amod
11	hues	hue	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flowers	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 different	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 different	cc
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 different	det
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bore	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 others	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 others	det
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 different	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 having	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 having	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 having	nsubj
22	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bore	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 kind	det
24	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 having	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 resemblance	case
26	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kind	nmod
27	among	among	ADP	_	28 themselves	case
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 having	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 showed	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 showed	nsubj
31	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 having	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 showed	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	36 blossoms	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 blossoms	cop
35	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 blossoms	compound
36	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 showed	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past	beauty		hundred flowers of the brilliant hues		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	gerund	all	a kind of resemblance		among others = other	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
3	show	past		others = other			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	is a	to-infinitive		sister blossoms			tree rules

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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