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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

advmodnsubjflatnmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctadvmodnsubjacl:relclxcompdet:predetdetoblpunctpunctccconjcompound:prtnmod:possobjcasedetoblcasenmodflatpunctcaseoblcasedetamodnmod:descoblpunctrootSoADVMotherPROPNCeresPROPNsetVERBherPRONtorchNOUNinADPaDETcornerNOUN(PUNCTwhereADVitPRONkeptVERBburningVERBallDETtheDETwhileNOUN)PUNCT,PUNCTandCCONJtookVERBupADPherPRONabodeNOUNinADPtheDETpalaceNOUNofADPKingPROPNCereusPROPN,PUNCTasADPnurseNOUNtoADPtheDETlittleADJPrincePROPNDemophoonPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 setadvmod
2MotherMotherPROPNNumber=Sing4 setnsubj
3CeresCeresPROPNNumber=Sing2 Motherflat
4setsetVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 torchnmod:poss
6torchtorchNOUNNumber=Sing4 setobj
7ininADP_9 cornercase
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 cornerdet
9cornercornerNOUNNumber=Sing4 setobl
10((PUNCT_13 keptpunct
11wherewhereADVPronType=Rel13 keptadvmod
12ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 keptnsubj
13keptkeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 corneracl:relcl
14burningburnVERBVerbForm=Ger13 keptxcomp
15allallDETPronType=Tot17 whiledet:predet
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 whiledet
17whilewhileNOUNNumber=Sing14 burningobl
18))PUNCT_13 keptpunct
19,,PUNCT_21 tookpunct
20andandCCONJ_21 tookcc
21tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 setconj
22upupADP_21 tookcompound:prt
23herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 abodenmod:poss
24abodeabodeNOUNNumber=Sing21 tookobj
25ininADP_27 palacecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 palacedet
27palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing21 tookobl
28ofofADP_29 Kingcase
29KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing27 palacenmod
30CereusCereusPROPNNumber=Sing29 Kingflat
31,,PUNCT_33 nursepunct
32asasADP_33 nursecase
33nursenurseNOUNNumber=Sing21 tookobl
34totoADP_38 Demophooncase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 Demophoondet
36littlelittleADJDegree=Pos38 Demophoonamod
37PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing38 Demophoonnmod:desc
38DemophoonDemophoonPROPNNumber=Sing21 tookobl
39..PUNCT_4 setpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1setpastMotherMother's torcha cornervn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent torch=Theme in corner=Destination
2keeppasttorchtree rules
3burngerundtorch not said herewhilevn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4take uppastMother not said hereMother's abodethe little Demophoon Princethe palace of Kingas nursevn 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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