Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 88

It is melancholy to think of her, pursuing her toilsome way, all alone, and holding up that never-dying torch, the flame of which seemed an emblem of the grief and hope that burned together in her heart.

Who acts: hope, that, flame · What happens: be, think, pursue, hold up, not die, seem · To what, where: melancholy, toilsome way, torch, emblem, heart

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 (hope, that, flame), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 melancholy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 melancholy	cop
3	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 melancholy	acl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pursuing	punct
9	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 think	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
11	toilsome	toilsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pursuing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 alone	punct
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 alone	advmod
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 pursuing	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 holding	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 holding	cc
18	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 pursuing	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 holding	compound:prt
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 dying	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 dying	advmod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 never	punct
23	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 holding	parataxis
24	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dying	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flame	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flame	det
27	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 torch	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 seemed	nsubj
30	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flame	acl:relcl
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 emblem	det
32	emblem	emblem	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seemed	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 grief	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 grief	det
35	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 emblem	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hope	cc
37	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grief	conj
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 burned	nsubj
39	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hope	acl:relcl
40	together	together	ADV	_	39 burned	advmod
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 heart	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 heart	nmod:poss
43	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 burned	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 melancholy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	hope	melancholy			tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive				of Ceres	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pursue	gerund		Ceres's toilsome way		alone property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	hold up	gerund					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	not die	gerund	that	torch			tree rules
6	seem	past	the flame	a emblem of the grief and hope			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme emblem=Attribute
7	burn	past	hope		Ceres's heart	together property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=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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