Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 78

But when a poet gets into the habit of using his heartstrings to make chords for his lyre, he may thrum upon them as much as he will, without any great pain to himself.

Who acts: poet, habit · What happens: get, use, make, thrum · To what, where: habit, heartstrings, chords

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 (poet, habit), 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	_	22 thrum	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gets	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poet	det
4	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thrum	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 habit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 habit	det
8	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 using	mark
10	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 habit	acl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heartstrings	nmod:poss
12	heartstrings	heartstring	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 using	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 using	advcl
15	chords	chord	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 lyre	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lyre	nmod:poss
18	lyre	lyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thrum	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 thrum	aux
22	thrum	thrum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thrum	obl
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thrum	ccomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 will	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 will	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 much	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pain	punct
31	without	without	ADP	_	34 pain	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 pain	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pain	amod
34	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thrum	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 himself	case
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 pain	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 thrum	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	a poet		the habit		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into habit=Destination
2	use	gerund	the habit not said here	poet's heartstrings			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartstring=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	the habit not said here	chords		for poet's lyre	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent chord=Product for lyre=Asset
4	thrum	may	poet			upon chords = chord; without any great pain to poet	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=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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