Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 35

At length, in her despair, she came to the dreadful resolution that not a stalk of grain, nor a blade of grass, not a potato, nor a turnip, nor any other vegetable that was good for man or beast to eat, should be suffered to grow until her daughter were restored.

Who acts: queen, dreadful resolution, other vegetable · What happens: come, not stalk, be, eat, suffer, grow · To what, where: blade, length, daughter

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, dreadful resolution, other vegetable), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 despair	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 despair	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 despair	nmod:poss
6	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 resolution	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 resolution	det
12	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 resolution	amod
13	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stalk	nsubj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 stalk	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stalk	det
17	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 resolution	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 grain	case
19	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stalk	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 blade	punct
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 blade	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 blade	det
23	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 grass	case
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blade	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 potato	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 potato	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 potato	det
29	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blade	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 turnip	punct
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 turnip	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 turnip	det
33	turnip	turnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 vegetable	punct
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 vegetable	cc
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 vegetable	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 vegetable	amod
38	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 turnip	appos
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 good	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 good	cop
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 vegetable	acl:relcl
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 man	case
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 good	obl
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 beast	cc
45	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 man	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 eat	mark
47	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 good	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 suffered	punct
49	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 suffered	aux
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 suffered	aux:pass
51	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 came	parataxis
52	to	to	PART	_	53 grow	mark
53	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 suffered	xcomp
54	until	until	SCONJ	_	58 restored	mark
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 daughter	nmod:poss
56	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 restored	nsubj
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 restored	aux:pass
58	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 grow	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	queen	a blade of grass and a potato	length and queen's despair	to the dreadful resolution; a turnip obl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to resolution=Initial_Location
2	not stalk		the dreadful resolution			of grain	tree rules
3	is	past	any other vegetable			for man or beast; good property	tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	any other vegetable not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	suffer	should · passive					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: clause=Stimulus
6	grow	to-infinitive					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	restore	past · passive		queen's daughter			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
8	despair		queen				nom despair «state 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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