Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 3

You would hardly believe me, if I were to tell how quickly the baby prince got rid of his ailments, and grew fat, and rosy, and strong, and how he had two rows of ivory teeth in less time than any other little fellow, before or since.

Who acts: You, I, baby prince, Prince · What happens: believe, tell, get, grow, have, ail · To what, where: me, fat, two rows · 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 (You, I, baby prince, Prince), 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	4 believe	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 believe	advmod
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 believe	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 tell	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tell	mark
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 believe	parataxis
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 quickly	advmod
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 got	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prince	det
15	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prince	compound
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	ccomp
18	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 got	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 ailments	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ailments	nmod:poss
21	ailments	ailment	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grew	cc
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	ccomp
25	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rosy	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rosy	cc
28	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grew	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 strong	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 strong	cc
31	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rosy	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 had	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grew	conj
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 rows	nummod
38	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 had	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 teeth	case
40	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 teeth	compound
41	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 rows	nmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 time	case
43	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 time	amod
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 teeth	nmod
45	than	than	ADP	_	49 fellow	case
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	49 fellow	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 fellow	amod
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 fellow	amod
49	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 time	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 since	punct
51	before	before	SCONJ	_	53 since	mark
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 since	cc
53	since	since	ADV	_	36 had	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	believe	would	You		me	hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	I				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	past	the baby prince			quickly, rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	grow	past		fat			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=Theme
5	have	past	Prince	two rows of ivory teeth in less time than any other little fellow		since property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient
6	ail		Prince				nom ailment «state transitive»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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