Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 9

All along the road, indeed, there were sparkling gems, which would have been of inestimable value above ground, but which here were reckoned of the meaner sort and hardly worth a beggar's stooping for.

Who acts: sparkling gems, beggar · What happens: be, sparkle, have, reckon, stoop · To what, where: road, inestimable value

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 (sparkling gems, beggar), 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	ADV	_	4 road	advmod
2	along	along	ADP	_	4 road	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 were	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 road	punct
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 were	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 indeed	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 gems	amod
11	gems	gem	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 would	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 would	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 gems	acl:relcl
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 would	xcomp
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 have	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 value	case
18	inestimable	inestimable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 value	amod
19	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 been	obl
20	above	above	ADP	_	21 ground	case
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 value	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reckoned	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 reckoned	cc
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 reckoned	nsubj:pass
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 reckoned	advmod
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 reckoned	aux:pass
27	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 value	acl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 sort	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sort	det
30	meaner	mean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 sort	amod
31	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reckoned	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 worth	cc
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	34 worth	advmod
34	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sort	amod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 beggar	det
36	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 worth	obj
37	's	's	PART	_	36 beggar	case
38	stooping	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 beggar	acl
39	for	for	ADP	_	38 stooping	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	sparkling gems		the road; there	indeed property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Location
2	sparkle	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	infinitive	sparkling gems not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	reckon	past · passive		inestimable value above ground	here	of the meaner sort	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Attribute
5	stoop	gerund	a beggar not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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