Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 24

Had you left him to my care, he would have grown up like a child of celestial birth, endowed with superhuman strength and intelligence, and would have lived forever.

Who acts: you, Demophoon, my · What happens: leave, grow up, endow, live, care · To what, where: Demophoon, care, 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, Demophoon, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1719): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 grown	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 care	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 care	nmod:poss
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grown	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 grown	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 grown	aux
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 grown	compound:prt
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grown	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 birth	case
18	celestial	celestial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 birth	amod
19	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 child	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 endowed	punct
21	endowed	endow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 child	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 strength	case
23	superhuman	superhuman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 strength	amod
24	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 endowed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 intelligence	cc
26	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strength	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lived	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lived	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 lived	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 lived	aux
31	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 grown	conj
32	forever	forever	ADV	_	31 lived	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect	you	Demophoon	my care		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to care=Recipient
2	grow up	would · perfect	Demophoon			like a child of celestial birth	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	endow	participle		a child of celestial birth not said here		with superhuman strength and intelligence	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with strength=Theme
4	live	would · perfect	Demophoon not said here			forever property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	care		my				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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