Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 76

All night long, at the door of every cottage and farm-house, Ceres knocked, and called up the weary laborers to inquire if they had seen her child; and they stood, gaping and half-asleep, at the threshold, and answered her pityingly, and besought her to come in and rest.

Who acts: Ceres, laborers · What happens: knock, call up, inquire, see, stand, gape · To what, where: weary laborers, child, threshold

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, laborers), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knocked	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 door	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cottage	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 cottage	det
10	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 house	cc
12	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 farm	punct
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cottage	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
16	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 knocked	nsubj
17	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 called	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 called	cc
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 knocked	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 called	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 laborers	det
23	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 laborers	amod
24	laborers	laborer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 called	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 inquire	mark
26	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 called	advcl
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 seen	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seen	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 inquire	advcl
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 child	nmod:poss
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seen	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 stood	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stood	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stood	nsubj
36	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 knocked	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gaping	punct
38	gaping	gape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 stood	advcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 asleep	cc
40	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	42 asleep	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 half	punct
42	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 gaping	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 threshold	punct
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 threshold	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 threshold	det
46	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stood	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 answered	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 answered	cc
49	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 knocked	conj
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 answered	obj
51	pityingly	pityingly	ADV	_	49 answered	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 besought	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 besought	cc
54	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 knocked	conj
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 besought	obj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 come	mark
57	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 besought	xcomp
58	in	in	ADV	_	57 come	advmod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 rest	cc
60	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 come	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	Ceres				night		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	call up speech: assert	participle		the weary laborers					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	laborers = laborer	child's child					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
5	stand	past	laborers = laborer			the threshold			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at threshold=Location
6	gape	gerund	laborers = laborer not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	answer speech: assert	past	Ceres not said here		child			pityingly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
8	beseech	past	Ceres not said here	child					tree rules
9	come in	to-infinitive	Ceres not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	rest	infinitive	Ceres not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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