Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 5

Ceres was resolved to leave no spot without a search; so she peeped into the entrance of the cave, and lighted it up a little more, by holding her own torch before her.

Who acts: Ceres · What happens: resolve, leave, peep, light up, hold · To what, where: Ceres, spot, own torch

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 (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	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 resolved	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resolved	aux:pass
3	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 resolved	xcomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 spot	det
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	without	without	ADP	_	10 search	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 search	det
10	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 peeped	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 peeped	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 peeped	nsubj
14	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resolved	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 entrance	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 entrance	det
17	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peeped	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cave	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cave	det
20	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 entrance	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lighted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lighted	cc
23	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 peeped	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lighted	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 lighted	compound:prt
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 more	obl:unmarked
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 lighted	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 holding	punct
30	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 holding	mark
31	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 lighted	advcl
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 torch	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 torch	amod
34	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 holding	obj
35	before	before	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 holding	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	past · passive		Ceres			tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive		no spot		without a search	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
3	peep	past	Ceres			into the entrance of the cave	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into entrance=Theme
4	light up	participle	Ceres not said here	spot			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
5	hold	gerund	Ceres not said here	Ceres's own torch	before Ceres		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent torch=Theme before she=Location

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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