Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 67

So she lighted a torch, and set forth, resolving never to come back until Proserpina was discovered.

Who acts: mother · What happens: light, set, resolve, not come back, discover · To what, where: torch, Proserpina

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 lighted	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lighted	nsubj
3	lighted	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 torch	det
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lighted	conj
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 set	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 resolving	punct
11	resolving	resolve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 set	advcl
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 come	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 resolving	ccomp
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 discovered	mark
17	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 discovered	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 discovered	aux:pass
19	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 come	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	light	past	mother	a torch		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Product
2	set	infinitive	mother not said here		forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	resolve	gerund	mother not said here			tree rules
4	not come back	to-infinitive	mother not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	discover	past · passive		Proserpina		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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