Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 18

Only sip a little of it, my dear Proserpina, and you will instantly cease to grieve for your mother, and will have nothing in your memory that can prevent your being perfectly happy in my palace.

Who acts: you, that · What happens: sip, cease, grieve, have, prevent, be · To what, where: little, nothing, memory, palace

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 (you, that), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 sip	advmod
2	sip	sip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sip	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 little	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Proserpina	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Proserpina	nmod:poss
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Proserpina	amod
10	Proserpina	proserpina	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sip	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cease	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cease	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 cease	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 cease	aux
15	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	16 cease	advmod
16	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sip	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 grieve	mark
18	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cease	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 mother	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grieve	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sip	conj
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 have	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 memory	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 memory	nmod:poss
29	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nothing	nmod
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 prevent	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 prevent	aux
32	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 nothing	conj
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 happy	nmod:poss
34	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 happy	cop
35	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	36 happy	advmod
36	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 prevent	ccomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 palace	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 palace	nmod:poss
39	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 happy	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sip	imperative	you not said here	a little of Lethe		my dear Proserpina obl	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
2	cease	future	you			instantly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grieve	to-infinitive	you not said here			for your mother	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	future	you not said here	nothing	your memory		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	prevent	can	that				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
6	is	gerund	that not said here		my palace	happy, perfectly 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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