Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 28
But then she reflected that the sorrow of the disconsolate Ceres would be like a gloomy twilight round about them both, let the sun shine ever so brightly, and that therefore she might enjoy her bad spirits quite as well as if she were to stay in the cave.
Who acts: Hecate, sorrow, sun, disconsolate · What happens: reflect, be, let, shine, enjoy, stay · To what, where: both, that, cave
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 (Hecate, sorrow, sun, disconsolate), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 reflected | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 reflected | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reflected | nsubj |
| 4 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 twilight | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sorrow | det |
| 7 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 twilight | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 disconsolate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 disconsolate | det |
| 10 | disconsolate | disconsolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sorrow | nmod |
| 11 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 disconsolate | appos |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 twilight | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 twilight | cop |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 twilight | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 twilight | det |
| 16 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 twilight | amod |
| 17 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reflected | advcl |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 reflected | advmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reflected | obl |
| 21 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 reflected | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reflected | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sun | det |
| 25 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shine | nsubj |
| 26 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | parataxis |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 shine | advmod |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 brightly | advmod |
| 29 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 26 shine | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 enjoy | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 enjoy | cc |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 enjoy | obl |
| 33 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 36 enjoy | advmod |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 enjoy | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 enjoy | aux |
| 36 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | conj |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 enjoy | obj |
| 38 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 spirits | amod |
| 39 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 enjoy | obj |
| 40 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 41 as | advmod |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 36 enjoy | advmod |
| 42 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 as | fixed |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 stay | mark |
| 44 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 48 stay | mark |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 stay | nsubj |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 stay | aux |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 stay | mark |
| 48 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | advcl |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 cave | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 cave | det |
| 51 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 stay | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | past | Hecate | both | then | about world; round property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | would | the sorrow of the disconsolate | like a gloomy twilight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Hecate not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shine | present | the sun | ever | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | enjoy | might | Hecate | that | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | stay | past | Hecate | the cave | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | ||||
| 7 | sorrow | the disconsolate | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=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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