Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 33

Pluto now summoned his domestics, and bade them lose no time in preparing a most sumptuous banquet, and above all things, not to fail of setting a golden beaker of the water of Lethe by Proserpina's plate.

Who acts: Pluto, time · What happens: summon, lose, prepare, not fail, set · To what, where: domestics, bade, sumptuous banquet, things, golden beaker

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 (Pluto, time), 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	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 summoned	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 summoned	advmod
3	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 domestics	nmod:poss
5	domestics	domestic	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 summoned	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lose	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lose	cc
8	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lose	obl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bade	obj
10	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 summoned	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lose	obj
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 preparing	mark
14	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 time	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 banquet	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 sumptuous	advmod
17	sumptuous	sumptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 banquet	amod
18	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 preparing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fail	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fail	cc
21	above	above	ADP	_	23 things	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 things	det
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fail	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 things	punct
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 fail	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fail	mark
27	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lose	conj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 setting	mark
29	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 fail	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 beaker	det
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 beaker	amod
32	beaker	beaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 setting	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beaker	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Lethe	case
37	Lethe	Lethe	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 water	nmod
38	by	by	ADP	_	41 plate	case
39	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 plate	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 Proserpina	case
41	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 setting	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	past	Pluto	Proserpina's domestics		now		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent domestic=Recipient
2	lose	present		bade		time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	prepare	gerund	no time not said here	a sumptuous banquet				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Patient
4	not fail	to-infinitive			all things			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	set	gerund		a golden beaker of the water of Lethe			by Proserpina's plate	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beaker=Theme by plate=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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