Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 38

Then, sending for the head cook, he gave strict orders that all sorts of delicacies, such as young people are usually fond of, should be set before Proserpina.

Who acts: cook · What happens: send, give, be, set, sort · To what, where: strict orders, sorts, delicacies

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 (cook), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sending	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gave	advcl
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 cook	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cook	compound
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sending	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sending	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 orders	amod
12	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 set	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sorts	det
15	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 set	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 delicacies	case
17	delicacies	delicacy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sorts	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fond	punct
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	22 people	case
20	as	as	ADP	_	19 such	fixed
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fond	obl
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fond	cop
24	usually	usually	ADV	_	25 fond	advmod
25	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sorts	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 fond	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fond	punct
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 set	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 set	aux:pass
30	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 orders	acl:relcl
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 Proserpina	case
32	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 set	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund	cook not said here		then	for the head cook	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	cook	strict orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	is	present				such young people; fond, usually property	tree rules
4	set	should · passive		all sorts of delicacies	before Proserpina		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination
5	sort			delicacies			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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