Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 48

It seemed so unaccountable, however, that the girl should have strayed over so many lands and seas (which she herself could not have traversed without the aid of her winged dragons), that the good Ceres tried to believe that it must be the child of some other parent, and not her own darling Proserpina, who had uttered this lamentable cry.

Who acts: It, aid, good Ceres, Ceres, own darling · What happens: seem, stray over, not traverse, wing, try, believe · To what, where: girl, dragons, child, lamentable cry · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (It, aid, good Ceres, Ceres), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 unaccountable	advmod
4	unaccountable	unaccountable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	2 seemed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 strayed	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 strayed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strayed	nsubj:pass
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 strayed	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 strayed	aux
13	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lands	amod
14	over	over	ADV	_	13 strayed	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 many	advmod
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lands	amod
17	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seemed	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seas	cc
19	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lands	conj
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 traversed	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 traversed	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 traversed	nsubj:pass
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 she	conj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 traversed	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 traversed	advmod
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 traversed	aux
27	traversed	traverse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 seas	acl:relcl
28	without	without	ADP	_	30 aid	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 aid	det
30	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 traversed	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 winged	obl
33	winged	wing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 aid	acl:relcl
34	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 winged	obj
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 winged	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tried	punct
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 tried	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Ceres	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Ceres	amod
40	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 tried	nsubj
41	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 traversed	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 believe	mark
43	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 tried	xcomp
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 child	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 child	nsubj
46	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 child	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 child	cop
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 child	det
49	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 believe	ccomp
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 parent	case
51	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	53 parent	det
52	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 parent	amod
53	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 child	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 darling	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 darling	cc
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 darling	advmod
57	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 darling	nmod:poss
58	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 darling	amod
59	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tried	parataxis
60	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 darling	appos
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 uttered	punct
62	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 uttered	nsubj
63	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 uttered	aux
64	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	59 darling	conj
65	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	67 cry	det
66	lamentable	lamentable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 cry	amod
67	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 uttered	obj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		however, unaccountable property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	stray over	should · perfect · passive		the girl	over property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not traverse	could · perfect · passive		girl	without the aid	tree rules
4	wing	past	the aid not said here	dragons	of girl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme of she=Trajectory
5	try	past	the good Ceres			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	believe not said to happen	to-infinitive	the good Ceres not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	must	Ceres	the child	of some other parent	tree rules
8	utter speech: other	past · perfect	girl's own darling	this lamentable cry		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic

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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