Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 85

Ceres answered, that Hecate was welcome to go back thither herself, but that, for her part, she would wander about the earth in quest of the entrance to King Pluto's dominions.

Who acts: Ceres, Hecate, that, entrance · What happens: answer, be, go back, wander, quest · To what, where: Hecate · 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 (Ceres, Hecate, that, entrance), 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	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 welcome	punct
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 welcome	mark
5	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 welcome	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 welcome	cop
7	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answered	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 welcome	xcomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	thither	thither	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wander	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 wander	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 wander	nsubj:outer
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 that	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 part	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 part	nmod:poss
19	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 that	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 that	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wander	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 wander	aux
23	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 answered	conj
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 earth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 earth	det
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wander	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 quest	case
28	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 earth	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 entrance	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 entrance	det
31	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 quest	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	36 dominions	case
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Pluto	nmod:desc
34	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 dominions	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Pluto	case
36	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 entrance	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Ceres			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Hecate		welcome property	tree rules
3	go back	to-infinitive	Hecate not said here	Hecate	thither property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	wander	would	that		about the earth in quest of the entrance to Pluto King's dominions	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about earth=Trajectory
5	quest		the entrance to Pluto King's dominions			nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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