Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 92
Nowadays, however, she gave herself no trouble about seed time nor harvest, but left the farmers to take care of their own affairs, and the crops to fade or flourish, as the case might be.
Who acts: Ceres, farmers, case · What happens: give, leave, take, fade, flourish, be · To what, where: trouble, Ceres, farmers, care
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, farmers, case), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1682): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nowadays | nowadays | ADV | _ | 6 gave | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nowadays | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 gave | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 trouble | det |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | compound |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trouble | nmod |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 harvest | cc |
| 14 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 farmers | det |
| 19 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 left | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 left | xcomp |
| 22 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 affairs | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 affairs | amod |
| 26 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 take | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 crops | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 crops | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 crops | det |
| 30 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 left | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 fade | mark |
| 32 | fade | fade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 crops | orphan |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 flourish | cc |
| 34 | flourish | flourish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 fade | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 be | punct |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 be | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 case | det |
| 38 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 be | nsubj |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 be | aux |
| 40 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 fade | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Ceres | no trouble | Ceres | about seed time nor harvest | however, nowadays property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient trouble=Theme | |
| 2 | leave | past | Ceres not said here | the farmers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | the farmers not said here | care | of farmers's own affairs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of affair=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | fade | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | flourish | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | be | might | the case | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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