Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 37

But there was a deep, glossy luster on the leaves of the shrub, and on the petals of the flowers, that made Proserpina doubt whether they might not be poisonous.

Who acts: deep glossy luster, flowers, luster · What happens: be, make, not be · To what, where: Proserpina doubt

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 (deep glossy luster, flowers, luster), 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	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 luster	det
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 luster	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 deep	punct
7	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 luster	amod
8	luster	luster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leaves	det
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 luster	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 shrub	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shrub	det
14	shrub	shrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 petals	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 petals	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 petals	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 petals	det
19	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 luster	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 flowers	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flowers	det
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 petals	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 made	nsubj
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flowers	acl:relcl
26	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 doubt	compound
27	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
28	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 poisonous	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 poisonous	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 poisonous	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 poisonous	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 poisonous	cop
33	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 made	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a deep glossy luster on the leaves of the shrub and the petals of the flowers		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	the flowers	Proserpina doubt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset doubt=Product
3	not is	might	luster			poisonous property	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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