Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 33

While she dwelt in the king's palace, Mother Ceres had been so continually occupied with taking care of the young prince, that her heart was a little lightened of its grief for Proserpina.

Who acts: queen, Mother Ceres · What happens: dwell, be, take, lighten · To what, where: palace, care, heart

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 (queen, Mother Ceres), 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:pg976:1727): 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 dwelt	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dwelt	nsubj
3	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 occupied	advcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 palace	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dwelt	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dwelt	punct
10	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Ceres	compound
11	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 occupied	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 occupied	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 occupied	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 occupied	advmod
15	continually	continually	ADV	_	16 occupied	advmod
16	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 taking	mark
18	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 occupied	advcl
19	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 prince	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 prince	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 prince	amod
23	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lightened	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 lightened	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heart	nmod:poss
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lightened	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lightened	aux:pass
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 little	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lightened	obl:unmarked
31	lightened	lighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 occupied	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 grief	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 grief	nmod:poss
34	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lightened	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 Proserpina	case
36	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 grief	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 occupied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	past	queen		the king's palace		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
2	is	past · perfect	Mother Ceres			continually, occupied property	tree rules
3	take	gerund	Mother Ceres not said here	care		of the young prince	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of prince=Initial_Location
4	lighten	past · passive		queen's heart		of heart's grief for Proserpina; a little obl:unmarked	vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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