Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 41

But he left the matter entirely to his cook, who, like all other cooks, considered nothing fit to eat unless it were rich pastry, or highly-seasoned meat, or spiced sweet cakes--things which Proserpina's mother had never given her, and the smell of which quite took away her appetite, instead of sharpening it.

Who acts: King, matter · What happens: leave, consider, eat, be, spice, not give · To what, where: matter, cook, nothing, rich pastry, sweet cakes, mother

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, matter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 left	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obj
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	3 left	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 cook	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cook	nmod:poss
9	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cooks	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 cooks	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cooks	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 cooks	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 cooks	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cooks	amod
16	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cook	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 considered	punct
18	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 considered	obj
20	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nothing	amod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fit	xcomp
23	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	27 pastry	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pastry	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pastry	cop
26	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pastry	amod
27	pastry	pastry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 considered	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 meat	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 meat	cc
30	highly	highly	ADV	_	33 meat	advmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 highly	punct
32	seasoned	seasoned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 meat	amod
33	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pastry	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 spiced	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 spiced	cc
36	spiced	spice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 left	conj
37	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 cakes	amod
38	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 spiced	obj
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 things	punct
40	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 cakes	conj
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 given	obj
42	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 mother	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 Proserpina	case
44	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 given	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 given	aux
46	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	47 given	advmod
47	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 things	acl:relcl
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 given	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 smell	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 smell	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 smell	det
52	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	parataxis
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 which	case
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 took	obl
55	quite	quite	ADV	_	56 took	advmod
56	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 smell	acl:relcl
57	away	away	ADV	_	56 took	advmod
58	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 appetite	nmod:poss
59	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 took	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 sharpening	punct
61	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	63 sharpening	mark
62	of	of	ADP	_	61 instead	fixed
63	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 took	advcl
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 sharpening	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	King	the matter	King's cook like all other cooks	entirely property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Theme to cook=Recipient
2	consider	past	King not said here	nothing			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nothing=Attribute
3	eat	to-infinitive	King not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	matter	rich pastry or seasoned meat			tree rules
5	spice	participle	King not said here	sweet cakes and things			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cake=Destination
6	not give	past · perfect · passive		Proserpina's mother			tree rules
7	take away	past		child's appetite		of the smell; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent appetite=Theme of which=Initial_Location
8	sharpen	gerund		appetite			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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