Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 1
So Mother Ceres set her torch in a corner (where it kept burning all the while), and took up her abode in the palace of King Cereus, as nurse to the little Prince Demophoon.
Who acts: Mother, torch · What happens: set, keep, burn, take up · To what, where: torch, corner, abode, little Demophoon, palace
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, torch), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mother | flat |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 torch | nmod:poss |
| 6 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 kept | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 kept | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kept | nsubj |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 corner | acl:relcl |
| 14 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 kept | xcomp |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 while | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 while | det |
| 17 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burning | obl |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 kept | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 abode | nmod:poss |
| 24 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 King | case |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 palace | nmod |
| 30 | Cereus | Cereus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 King | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 nurse | punct |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 nurse | case |
| 33 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Demophoon | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Demophoon | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Demophoon | amod |
| 37 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Demophoon | nmod:desc |
| 38 | Demophoon | Demophoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Mother | Mother's torch | a corner | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent torch=Theme in corner=Destination | |||
| 2 | keep | past | torch | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | torch not said here | while | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take up | past | Mother not said here | Mother's abode | the little Demophoon Prince | the palace of King | as nurse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent abode=Theme to demophoon=Destination |
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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