Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 2

She treated him as if he were her own child, and allowed neither the king nor the queen to say whether he should be bathed in warm or cold water, or what he should eat, or how often he should take the air, or when he should be put to bed.

Who acts: Mother, Prince, king · What happens: treat, be, allow, say, bath, eat · To what, where: Prince, king, warm water, air · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Prince, king), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 treated	nsubj
2	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 treated	obj
4	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 child	case
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 as	fixed
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 child	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 child	cop
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 child	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 child	amod
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treated	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 allowed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 allowed	cc
13	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 treated	conj
14	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 king	cc:preconj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 allowed	obj
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 queen	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 queen	det
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 king	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 say	mark
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 allowed	xcomp
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 bathed	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bathed	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bathed	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 bathed	aux:pass
26	bathed	bath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 say	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 water	case
28	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 water	amod
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 cold	cc
30	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 warm	conj
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bathed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 eat	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 eat	cc
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 eat	obj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 eat	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 eat	aux
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 bathed	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 take	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 take	cc
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 often	advmod
41	often	often	ADV	_	44 take	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 take	nsubj
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 take	aux
44	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 eat	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 air	det
46	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 take	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 put	punct
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 put	cc
49	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	53 put	advmod
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 put	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 put	aux
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 put	aux:pass
53	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 take	conj
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 bed	case
55	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 put	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 treated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	treat	past	Mother		Prince			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	past	Prince				as Mother's own child	tree rules
3	allow	past	Mother not said here	the king nor the queen				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer king=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king nor the queen not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bath	should · passive		Prince		warm water		tree rules
6	eat	should	Prince					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
7	take	should	Prince	the air			often property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
8	put	should · passive		Prince			to bed	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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