Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 17

You may imagine, if you can, how Queen Metanira shrieked, thinking nothing less than that her dear child would be burned to a cinder.

Who acts: You, Queen · What happens: imagine, shriek, think, burn · To what, where: nothing, dear child

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 (You, Queen), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 can	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 can	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 can	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shrieked	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 shrieked	advmod
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 shrieked	nsubj
11	Metanira	Metanira	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Queen	flat
12	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thinking	punct
14	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 shrieked	advcl
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 thinking	obj
16	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 nothing	amod
17	than	than	ADP	_	16 less	fixed
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 burned	mark
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 child	nmod:poss
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 child	amod
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 burned	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 burned	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 burned	aux:pass
24	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 thinking	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 cinder	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cinder	det
27	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 burned	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imagine	may	You			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	shriek	past	Queen			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	think speech: other	gerund	Queen not said here	nothing		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
4	burn	would · passive		queen's dear child	to a cinder	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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