Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 80

Thus passed the night; and still she continued her search without sitting down to rest, or stopping to take food, or even remembering to put out the torch although first the rosy dawn, and then the glad light of the morning sun, made its red flame look thin and pale.

Who acts: child, red flame, torch · What happens: pass, continue, sit down, rest, stop, take · To what, where: glad light, search, food, torch, red flame, morning sun

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 (child, red flame, torch), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 passed	advmod
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl:unmarked
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 continued	cc
7	still	still	ADV	_	9 continued	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 continued	nsubj
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 search	nmod:poss
11	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	obj
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 sitting	mark
13	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 continued	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 sitting	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rest	mark
16	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sitting	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stopping	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 stopping	cc
19	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 sitting	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 take	mark
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stopping	xcomp
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remembering	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 remembering	cc
25	even	even	ADV	_	26 remembering	advmod
26	remembering	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 stopping	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 put	mark
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 remembering	xcomp
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 put	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 torch	det
31	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obj
32	although	although	SCONJ	_	36 dawn	mark
33	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 dawn	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dawn	det
35	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dawn	amod
36	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 light	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 light	cc
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 light	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 light	det
41	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 light	amod
42	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 sun	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sun	det
45	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sun	compound
46	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 light	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 made	punct
48	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
49	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 flame	nmod:poss
50	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 flame	amod
51	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 made	obj
52	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 made	xcomp
53	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 look	xcomp
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 pale	cc
55	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 thin	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past		the glad light of the morning sun	night	thus property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	continue	past	child	child's search	still		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent search=Theme
3	sit down	gerund	child not said here			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive	child not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stop	gerund	child not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	take	to-infinitive	child not said here	food			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
7	remember	gerund	child not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	put out	to-infinitive	child not said here	the torch			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent torch=Goal
9	make	past		torch's red flame			tree rules
10	look	infinitive	torch's red flame not said here			thin property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
11	search		child				nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent
12	light			the morning sun			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
13	flame		torch				nom flame «process intransitive»: poss=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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