Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 40

Now, if King Pluto had been cunning enough to offer Proserpina some fruit, or bread and milk (which was the simple fare to which the child had always been accustomed), it is very probable that she would soon have been tempted to eat it.

Who acts: King, milk, fruit · What happens: cunn, offer, be, accustom, tempt, eat · To what, where: bread, fruit, Proserpina, simple fare, child

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 (King, milk, fruit), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 probable	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 cunning	mark
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cunning	nsubj
5	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	flat
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cunning	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cunning	aux
8	cunning	cunn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 probable	advcl
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 cunning	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 offer	mark
11	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cunning	advcl
12	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 offer	obj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 fruit	det
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offer	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bread	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 bread	cc
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cunning	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 milk	cc
19	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bread	conj
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 fare	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 fare	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fare	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fare	det
24	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fare	amod
25	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 milk	appos
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 accustomed	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 child	det
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 accustomed	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 accustomed	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 accustomed	advmod
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 accustomed	aux:pass
33	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fare	acl:relcl
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 fare	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cunning	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 probable	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 probable	cop
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 probable	advmod
39	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 tempted	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 tempted	nsubj:pass
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 tempted	aux
43	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 tempted	advmod
44	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 tempted	aux
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 tempted	aux:pass
46	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 probable	advcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 eat	mark
48	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 tempted	xcomp
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 eat	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 probable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cunn a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · progressive	King	bread and milk			enough property	tree rules
2	offer	to-infinitive	King not said here	some fruit	Proserpina			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent proserpina=Goal fruit=Theme
3	is a	past	milk	the simple fare				tree rules
4	accustom	past · perfect · passive		the child			to the simple fare; always property	tree rules
5	is	present	fruit			now	probable property	tree rules
6	tempt	would · perfect · passive		child			soon property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	eat	to-infinitive		fruit				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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