Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 95

He, too, had horns, and hairy ears, and goats' feet; but, being acquainted with Mother Ceres, he answered her question as civilly as he knew how, and invited her to taste some milk and honey out of a wooden bowl.

Who acts: shepherd, child · What happens: have, be, answer, know, invite, taste · To what, where: horns, question, child, milk, wooden bowl

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 (shepherd, child), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 He	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 too	punct
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ears	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ears	cc
9	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ears	amod
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 horns	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 feet	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 feet	cc
13	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feet	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 goats	case
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 horns	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 acquainted	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 acquainted	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 but	punct
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 acquainted	cop
20	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 Mother	case
22	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 acquainted	obl
23	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Mother	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 answered	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 answered	nsubj
26	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 question	nmod:poss
28	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 answered	obj
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 civilly	advmod
30	civilly	civilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 answered	xcomp
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 knew	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 knew	nsubj
33	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 civilly	advcl
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 knew	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 invited	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 invited	cc
37	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 invited	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 taste	mark
40	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 invited	xcomp
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 milk	det
42	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 taste	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 honey	cc
44	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 milk	conj
45	out	out	ADP	_	49 bowl	case
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 bowl	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 bowl	det
48	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 bowl	amod
49	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 taste	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	shepherd	horns and hairy ears and goats's feet			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
2	is	gerund	shepherd not said here			with Mother; acquainted property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	shepherd	child's question		civilly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
4	know	past	shepherd				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	invite	past	shepherd not said here	child			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	taste not said to happen	to-infinitive	child not said here	some milk and honey	a wooden bowl		vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent milk=Theme out bowl=Location
7	question		child				nom question «communication transitive»: 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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