Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 84

The dismal Hecate, who loved to take the darkest view of things, told Ceres that she had better come with her to the cavern, and spend the rest of her life in being miserable.

Who acts: dismal Hecate, Hecate · What happens: love, take, tell, have, come, spend · To what, where: darkest view, Ceres, cavern, rest, things · 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 (dismal Hecate, Hecate), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hecate	det
2	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Hecate	amod
3	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 loved	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 loved	nsubj
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Hecate	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 loved	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 view	det
10	darkest	dark	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 view	amod
11	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 things	case
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 view	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Hecate	punct
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Ceres	cere	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	ccomp
20	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 had	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 cavern	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cavern	det
26	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spend	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spend	cc
29	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rest	det
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spend	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 life	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 life	nmod:poss
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rest	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 miserable	case
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 miserable	cop
37	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 spend	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	the dismal Hecate					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dismal Hecate not said here	the darkest view of things				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the dismal Hecate		Ceres			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cere=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have	past	Hecate				well property	tree rules
5	come	infinitive	Hecate not said here			the cavern	with Hecate	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cavern=Initial_Location
6	spend	infinitive	the dismal Hecate not said here	the rest of Hecate's life				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset
7	is	gerund					miserable property	tree rules
8	view			things				nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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