Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 73

The earth did not produce it by any help of mine, nor of its own accord.

Who acts: earth · What happens: not produce, help · To what, where: mischief, mine

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 (earth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 produce	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 produce	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 produce	advmod
5	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 produce	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 help	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 help	det
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 produce	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 mine	case
11	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 help	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 accord	punct
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 accord	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 accord	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 accord	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 accord	amod
17	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 produce	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 produce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not produce	past · do-support	the earth	mischief				by any help of mine	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
2	help			mine					nom help «act transitive»: of=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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