Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 95

The children, too, appeared to have a sympathy with her grief, and would cluster themselves in a little group about her knees, and look up wistfully in her face; and Ceres, after giving them a kiss all round, would lead them to their homes, and advise their mothers never to let them stray out of sight.

Who acts: children, Ceres, farmers · What happens: appear, have, cluster, look up, give, lead · To what, where: sympathy, farmers, little group, kiss, homes, mothers

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 (children, Ceres, farmers), 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	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 appeared	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 children	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	6 appeared	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 appeared	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sympathy	det
10	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 grief	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 grief	nmod:poss
13	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sympathy	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cluster	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cluster	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cluster	aux
17	cluster	cluster	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 appeared	conj
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 cluster	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 group	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 group	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 group	amod
22	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cluster	obl
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 knees	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 knees	nmod:poss
25	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 group	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 look	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 look	cc
28	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 cluster	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 look	compound:prt
30	wistfully	wistfully	ADV	_	28 look	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 face	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 face	nmod:poss
33	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 look	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 lead	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lead	cc
36	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 lead	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Ceres	punct
38	after	after	SCONJ	_	39 giving	mark
39	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 Ceres	acl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 giving	iobj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 kiss	det
42	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 giving	obj
43	all	all	ADV	_	44 round	advmod
44	round	round	ADV	_	39 giving	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Ceres	punct
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 lead	aux
47	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 appeared	conj
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 lead	obj
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 homes	case
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 homes	nmod:poss
51	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 lead	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 advise	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 advise	cc
54	advise	advise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	47 lead	parataxis
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 mothers	nmod:poss
56	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 advise	obj
57	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	59 let	advmod
58	to	to	PART	_	59 let	mark
59	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	54 advise	parataxis
60	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 let	obj
61	stray	stray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 let	xcomp
62	out	out	ADP	_	64 sight	case
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 sight	case
64	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 stray	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the children					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	have	to-infinitive	the children not said here	a sympathy			with Ceres's grief	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sympathy=Patient
3	cluster	would	the children not said here	farmers = farmer		a little group about Ceres's knees		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
4	look up	infinitive	the children not said here				in Ceres's face; wistfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme
5	give	gerund	Ceres not said here	a kiss	farmers = farmer		round property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient kiss=Theme
6	lead	would	Ceres	farmers = farmer		farmers's homes		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to home=Destination
7	advise speech: other	infinitive			farmers's mothers			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
8	not let	to-infinitive		farmers = farmer				tree rules
9	stray	infinitive	farmers = farmer not said here			sight		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out sight=Trajectory

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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