Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 65

Nor could it have availed her poor daughter, even had she been within hearing; for no sooner did Proserpina begin to cry out, than the stranger leaped to the ground, caught the child in his arms, and again mounted the chariot, shook the reins, and shouted to the four black horses to set off.

Who acts: Nor, Proserpina · What happens: avail, have, be, begin, cry out, leap · To what, where: Nor, stranger, ground, child, arms, chariot

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 (Nor, Proserpina), 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	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 availed	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 availed	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 availed	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 availed	aux
5	availed	avail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 daughter	amod
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 availed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 availed	conj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hearing	nsubj
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 hearing	cop
14	within	within	ADP	_	15 hearing	case
15	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 begin	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 begin	mark
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 sooner	det
19	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 begin	advmod
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 begin	aux
21	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 begin	nsubj
22	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 availed	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 cry	mark
24	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begin	xcomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 cry	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stranger	punct
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 stranger	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stranger	det
29	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begin	conj
30	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 stranger	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leaped	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 caught	punct
35	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 begin	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 child	det
37	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 caught	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 arms	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 arms	nmod:poss
40	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 child	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 mounted	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 mounted	cc
43	again	again	ADV	_	44 mounted	advmod
44	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 caught	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 chariot	det
46	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 mounted	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 shook	punct
48	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 mounted	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 reins	det
50	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 shook	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 shouted	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 shouted	cc
53	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 caught	conj
54	to	to	ADP	_	58 horses	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 horses	det
56	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 horses	nummod
57	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 horses	amod
58	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 shouted	obl
59	to	to	PART	_	60 set	mark
60	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 shouted	advcl
61	off	off	ADP	_	60 set	compound:prt
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 availed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avail	could · perfect · passive		Nor					tree rules
2	have	past							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle	Nor					within hearing	tree rules
4	begin	past · do-support	Proserpina					soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cry out speech: express	to-infinitive	Proserpina not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	leap	participle		the stranger not said here		the ground			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination
7	catch	past		the child		stranger's arms			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
8	mount	past		the chariot			again		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient
9	shake	past		the reins					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rein=Patient
10	shout speech: express	past			the four black horses				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to horse=Recipient
11	set off	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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