Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 25

Do you imagine that earthly children are to become immortal without being tempered to it in the fiercest heat of the fire?

Who acts: you, that, fire · What happens: imagine, be, temper, heat · To what, where: intelligence, fiercest heat

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, that, fire), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 become	nsubj
5	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 become	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 become	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 become	mark
9	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 imagine	ccomp
10	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 become	xcomp
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 tempered	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 tempered	aux:pass
13	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 become	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tempered	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 heat	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heat	det
18	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 heat	amod
19	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tempered	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 fire	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heat	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	present · do-support	you				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	is	present	that			become, immortal property	tree rules
3	temper	gerund · passive	that not said here	intelligence	the fiercest heat of the fire		tree rules
4	heat		the fire				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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