Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 37

Now, as not so much as a head of asparagus ever presumed to poke itself out of the ground, without the especial permission of Ceres, you may conceive what a terrible calamity had here fallen upon the earth.

Who acts: you, terrible calamity · What happens: presume, poke, conceive, fall, permit · To what, where: head, ground, much, Ceres

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, terrible calamity), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 much	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 much	case
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 much	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 conceive	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 presumed	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 presumed	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 asparagus	case
11	asparagus	asparagus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 presumed	obl
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 presumed	advmod
13	presumed	presume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 conceive	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 poke	mark
15	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 presumed	xcomp
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 poke	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 ground	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poke	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 permission	punct
22	without	without	ADP	_	25 permission	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 permission	det
24	especial	especial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 permission	amod
25	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poke	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Ceres	case
27	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 permission	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 presumed	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 conceive	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 conceive	aux
31	conceive	conceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 fallen	obj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 calamity	det
34	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 calamity	amod
35	calamity	calamity	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fallen	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 fallen	aux
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 fallen	advmod
38	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 conceive	ccomp
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 earth	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 earth	det
41	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fallen	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 conceive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	presume	participle · passive		a head		ever	of asparagus	tree rules
2	poke	to-infinitive		head	the ground		without the especial permission of Ceres	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
3	conceive	may	you	much				vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Theme clause=Attribute
4	fall	past · perfect	a terrible calamity		here		upon the earth	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient what=Result
5	permit			Ceres				nom permission «communication transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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