Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 99

The infant, it seems, was sickly (being troubled with its teeth, I suppose), and would take no food, and was all the time moaning with pain.

Who acts: it, I, time · What happens: seem, be, trouble, suppose, take, moan · To what, where: food, time

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 (it, I, time), 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 infant	det
2	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seems	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 infant	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seems	nsubj
5	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sickly	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sickly	cop
8	sickly	sickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seems	xcomp
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 troubled	punct
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 troubled	aux:pass
11	troubled	trouble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sickly	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 teeth	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 teeth	nmod:poss
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 troubled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 suppose	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 suppose	nsubj
17	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seems	parataxis
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 suppose	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 take	cc
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 take	aux
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seems	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 food	det
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 time	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 time	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 time	cop
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 time	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seems	parataxis
31	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 time	acl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 pain	case
33	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 moaning	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	past			sickly property	tree rules
3	trouble	gerund · passive			with alarm's teeth	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	suppose	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	take	would		no food		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
6	is a	past		all time		tree rules
7	moan	gerund	all time not said here		with pain	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=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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