Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 72

To tell you the truth, his three-headed mastiff would never let me pass the gateway; for I should be compelled to take a sheaf of sunbeams along with me, and those, you know, are forbidden things in Pluto's kingdom."

Who acts: headed mastiff, me, you · What happens: tell, not let, pass, compel, take, know · To what, where: truth, you, me, gateway, I, sheaf · 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 (headed mastiff, me, you), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mastiff	nmod:poss
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 headed	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 three	punct
10	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mastiff	amod
11	mastiff	mastiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 let	advmod
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gateway	det
18	gateway	gateway	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pass	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 compelled	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 compelled	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 compelled	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 compelled	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 compelled	aux:pass
24	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tell	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 compelled	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 sheaf	det
28	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 sunbeams	case
30	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sheaf	nmod
31	along	along	ADP	_	33 me	case
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 take	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 forbidden	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 forbidden	cc
36	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 forbidden	nsubj:pass
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 know	punct
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 know	nsubj
39	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 those	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 know	punct
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 forbidden	aux:pass
42	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 compelled	conj
43	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 forbidden	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 kingdom	case
45	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 kingdom	nmod:poss
46	's	's	PART	_	45 Pluto	case
47	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 forbidden	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the truth	you			tree rules
2	not let	would	Pluto's headed mastiff	me				tree rules
3	pass	infinitive	me not said here	the gateway				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gateway=Trajectory
4	compel	should · passive		I				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	take	to-infinitive		a sheaf of sunbeams			along me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme
6	know	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	forbid	present · passive		those		Pluto's kingdom		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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