Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 28
The weak tenderness of his mother has cost the poor boy an immortality.
Who acts: weak tenderness · What happens: cost · To what, where: poor boy
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 (weak tenderness), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tenderness | det |
| 2 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tenderness | amod |
| 3 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cost | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mother | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tenderness | nmod |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cost | aux |
| 8 | cost | cost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boy | amod |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cost | obj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 immortality | det |
| 13 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cost | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present · perfect | the weak tenderness of tenderness's mother | the poor boy | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme boy=Beneficiary immortality=Value |
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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