Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 49

Nevertheless, it troubled her with a vast many tender fears, such as are ready to bestir themselves in every mother's heart, when she finds it necessary to go away from her dear children without leaving them under the care of some maiden aunt, or other such faithful guardian.

Who acts: Ceres, girl, maiden aunt · What happens: trouble, be, bestir, find, go away, leave · To what, where: girl, fears, heart, Ceres, care

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 (Ceres, girl, maiden aunt), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	4 troubled	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 troubled	nsubj
4	troubled	trouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 troubled	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	11 fears	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fears	det
8	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fears	amod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fears	amod
10	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fears	amod
11	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 troubled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ready	punct
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	16 ready	case
14	as	as	ADP	_	13 such	fixed
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ready	cop
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fears	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bestir	mark
18	bestir	bestir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ready	xcomp
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 bestir	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 heart	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 mother	det
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heart	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 mother	case
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bestir	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 finds	punct
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 finds	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 finds	nsubj
28	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 troubled	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 finds	obj
30	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 finds	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 necessary	xcomp
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 go	advmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 children	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 children	nmod:poss
36	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 children	amod
37	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 go	obl
38	without	without	SCONJ	_	39 leaving	mark
39	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 go	advcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 leaving	obj
41	under	under	ADP	_	43 care	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 care	det
43	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 leaving	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 aunt	case
45	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	47 aunt	det
46	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 aunt	amod
47	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 care	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 guardian	punct
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 guardian	cc
50	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 guardian	amod
51	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 guardian	amod
52	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 guardian	amod
53	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 finds	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 troubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trouble	past	Ceres	girl		with a vast many tender fears; nevertheless property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2	is	present	Ceres not said here			ready property	tree rules
3	bestir	to-infinitive	Ceres not said here	fears = fear	every mother's heart		tree rules
4	find	present	girl	Ceres		other such faithful guardian obl; necessary property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	go away	to-infinitive	Ceres not said here			from girl's dear children; away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from child=Initial_Location
6	leave	gerund	Ceres not said here	fears = fear	the care of some maiden aunt		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme under care=Location
7	care		some maiden aunt				nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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