Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 101

If I were ever so hungry, I should never think of eating such a miserable, dry pomegranate as that."

Who acts: I · What happens: be, not think, eat · To what, where: miserable dry pomegranate

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 (I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 hungry	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 hungry	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hungry	advmod
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 think	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hungry	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 think	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 think	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 think	advmod
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 eating	mark
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 think	advcl
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 pomegranate	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pomegranate	det
16	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pomegranate	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 miserable	punct
18	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pomegranate	amod
19	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eating	obj
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 eating	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		ever	hungry property	tree rules
2	not think speech: other	should	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	gerund	I not said here	such miserable dry pomegranate		as that	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomegranate=Patient

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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