Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 42

But my story must now clamber out of King Pluto's dominions, and see what Mother Ceres had been about, since she was bereft of her daughter.

Who acts: story, Mother · What happens: clamber, see, be · To what, where: dominions

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 (story, Mother), 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	_	6 clamber	cc
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 story	nmod:poss
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clamber	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 clamber	aux
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 clamber	advmod
6	clamber	clamber	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	12 dominions	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 dominions	case
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Pluto	nmod:desc
10	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dominions	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Pluto	case
12	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clamber	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 clamber	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 see	obj
17	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 about	nsubj
18	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Mother	flat
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 about	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 about	cop
21	about	about	ADV	_	16 what	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bereft	punct
23	since	since	SCONJ	_	26 bereft	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bereft	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bereft	cop
26	bereft	bereft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 see	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 daughter	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 daughter	nmod:poss
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bereft	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 clamber	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	clamber	must	my story	Pluto King's dominions	now		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out dominion=Trajectory
2	see	infinitive	my story not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	is	past · perfect	Mother			about property	tree rules
4	is	past	mother			of mother's daughter; bereft 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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