Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 36
She even forbade the flowers to bloom, lest somebody's heart should be cheered by their beauty.
Who acts: queen, beauty · What happens: forbid, bloom, cheer · To what, where: flowers, 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, beauty), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forbade | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 forbade | advmod |
| 3 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flowers | det |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forbade | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bloom | mark |
| 7 | bloom | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forbade | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cheered | punct |
| 9 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 15 cheered | mark |
| 10 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 somebody | case |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cheered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 cheered | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cheered | aux:pass |
| 15 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 forbade | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 beauty | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cheered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | past | queen | the flowers | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bloom | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cheer | should · passive | flowers's beauty | somebody's heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/36/