Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 80

Poor Mother Ceres had now found out what had become of her daughter, but was not a whit happier than before.

What happens: find out, become, not be · To what, where: Poor Mother Ceres, whit

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: 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Ceres	amod
2	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ceres	compound
3	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 found	advmod
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 found	compound:prt
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 become	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 found	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 daughter	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whit	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 whit	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 whit	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 whit	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 whit	det
19	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	parataxis
20	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 whit	amod
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 before	case
22	before	before	ADV	_	20 happier	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find out	past · perfect · passive	Poor Mother Ceres	now		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	become	past · perfect			of Ceres's daughter	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not is a	past	a whit			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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