Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 101

So Queen Metanira ran to the door, with the poor wailing baby in her arms, and besought Ceres to take charge of it, or, at least, to tell her what would do it good.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: run, wail, beseech, take, tell, do · To what, where: Ceres, charge, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
3	Metanira	Metanira	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Queen	flat
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 baby	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 baby	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 baby	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 baby	amod
12	wailing	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 baby	amod
13	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 arms	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arms	nmod:poss
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 baby	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 besought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 besought	cc
19	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
20	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 besought	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 besought	xcomp
23	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 tell	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 or	punct
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 least	case
30	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 tell	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ran	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	iobj
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 do	obj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 do	aux
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 tell	ccomp
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 do	obj
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 do	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	Queen				to the door result; with the poor wailing baby in queen's arms	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result
2	wail	gerund						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beseech	past	Queen not said here	Ceres				tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	Queen not said here	charge			of charge	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent charge=Theme of it=Initial_Location
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Queen not said here		Ceres	least		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do	would		charge				tree rules

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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