Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 90

They were a frolicsome kind of creature but grew as sad as their cheerful dispositions would allow, when Ceres inquired for her daughter, and they had no good news to tell.

Who acts: horns, cheerful dispositions, Ceres · What happens: be, grow, allow, inquire, have, tell · To what, where: frolicsome kind, good news · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (horns, cheerful dispositions, Ceres), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kind	det
4	frolicsome	frolicsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kind	amod
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 creature	case
7	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 grew	cc
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	conj
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 sad	advmod
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 allow	mark
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dispositions	nmod:poss
14	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dispositions	amod
15	dispositions	disposition	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 allow	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 allow	aux
17	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sad	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 inquired	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 inquired	advmod
20	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 inquired	nsubj
21	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	parataxis
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 daughter	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 inquired	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 inquired	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 news	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 news	amod
31	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 news	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	horns = horn	a frolicsome kind	of creature	tree rules
2	grow	past	horns = horn not said here		sad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	allow	would	horns's cheerful dispositions			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	inquire speech: other	past	Ceres		for child's daughter	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	horns = horn	no good news		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	horns = horn not said here	no good news not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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