Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 74

It is the work of enchantment, and is therefore poisonous; and perhaps it has poisoned my poor child."

Who acts: earth · What happens: be, poison · To what, where: work, earth

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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 work	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 work	det
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 enchantment	case
6	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poisonous	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 poisonous	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 poisonous	cop
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	11 poisonous	advmod
11	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 work	parataxis
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 poisoned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 poisoned	cc
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 poisoned	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 poisoned	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 poisoned	aux
17	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 poisonous	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 child	nmod:poss
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 poisoned	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	earth	the work	of enchantment	tree rules
2	is	present			poisonous, therefore property	tree rules
3	poison	present · perfect · passive		earth	perhaps property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient child=Result

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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