Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 9

Young girls, without their mothers to take care of them, are very apt to get into mischief."

Who acts: Young girls · What happens: take, be, get · To what, where: care, mischief

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 (Young girls), 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	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 girls	amod
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 apt	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mothers	punct
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 mothers	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mothers	nmod:poss
6	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 girls	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mothers	acl
9	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 girls	punct
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 apt	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 apt	advmod
15	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 apt	advcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 mischief	case
19	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 apt	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 apt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive	Young girls and girls's mothers not said here	care		of girls = girl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of they=Initial_Location
2	is	present	Young girls and girls's mothers			apt property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	Young girls and girls's mothers not said here		mischief		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into mischief=Destination

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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