Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 17

At all events, its water has one excellent quality; for a single draught of it makes people forget every care and sorrow that has hitherto tormented them.

Who acts: water, people · What happens: have, make, forget, torment · To what, where: one excellent quality, events, people, care

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, people), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 events	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 events	det
3	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 events	punct
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 water	nmod:poss
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 quality	nummod
9	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 quality	amod
10	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 makes	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 draught	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 draught	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 draught	amod
15	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 makes	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 draught	nmod
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 has	conj
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 makes	obj
20	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 makes	xcomp
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 care	det
22	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 forget	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sorrow	cc
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 care	conj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 tormented	obj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 tormented	aux
27	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	28 tormented	advmod
28	tormented	torment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 care	acl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tormented	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Lethe's water	one excellent quality	all events		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Patient
2	make	present	Lethe's water not said here	people		for a single draught of Lethe	tree rules
3	forget	infinitive	people not said here	every care and sorrow			tree rules
4	torment	present · perfect		every care and sorrow		hitherto property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer they=Result

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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