Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 9

"I am wretched enough now," thought poor Ceres, "to talk with this melancholy Hecate, were she ten times sadder than ever she was yet."

Who acts: Mother Ceres, poor Ceres, wretched, Ceres · What happens: be, think, talk · 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 (Mother Ceres, poor Ceres, wretched, Ceres), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wretched	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wretched	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wretched	cop
4	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sadder	nsubj
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 wretched	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wretched	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wretched	parataxis
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Ceres	amod
11	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 thought	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 talk	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 talk	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 talk	mark
15	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	ccomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 melancholy	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 melancholy	det
18	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talk	obl
19	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 melancholy	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wretched	punct
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sadder	cop
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sadder	nsubj
23	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 times	nummod
24	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sadder	obl:unmarked
25	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 ever	case
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 sadder	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 yet	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 yet	cop
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 sadder	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 sadder	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 sadder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Mother Ceres = ceres	now	enough, wretched property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	poor Ceres			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	talk in a quote	to-infinitive			with this melancholy	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with melancholy=Co-Agent
4	is in a quote	past	wretched	time	sad property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	past	Ceres		yet property	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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