Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 96
"For if they do," said she, "it may happen to you, as it has to me, that the iron-hearted King Pluto will take a liking to your darlings, and snatch them up in his chariot, and carry them away."
Who acts: farmers, Ceres, it, kiss, hearted Pluto · What happens: do, say, happen, have, take, snatch up · To what, where: you, Ceres, liking, darlings, farmers, chariot · 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 (farmers, Ceres, it, kiss), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happen | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 happen | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 happen | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 happen | aux |
| 14 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 happen | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 has | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 has | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 happen | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 has | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 take | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 take | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Pluto | det |
| 26 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hearted | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 iron | punct |
| 28 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Pluto | amod |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Pluto | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 take | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 take | aux |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 has | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 liking | det |
| 34 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 darlings | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 darlings | nmod:poss |
| 37 | darlings | darling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 take | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 snatch | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 snatch | cc |
| 40 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 take | conj |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 snatch | obj |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 snatch | compound:prt |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 chariot | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 45 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 snatch | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 carry | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 carry | cc |
| 48 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 take | conj |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 carry | obj |
| 50 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 carry | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | farmers = farmer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ceres | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | happen in a quote | may | it | you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | kiss | Ceres | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | future | the hearted Pluto King | a liking | your darlings | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liking=Theme to darling=Destination | |||
| 6 | snatch up in a quote | infinitive | the hearted Pluto King not said here | farmers = farmer | Pluto's chariot | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 7 | carry away in a quote | infinitive | the hearted Pluto King not said here | farmers = farmer | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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