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

Instead of the palest, and wretchedest, and puniest imp in the world (as his own mother confessed him to be, when Ceres first took him in charge), he was now a strapping baby, crowing, laughing, kicking up his heels, and rolling from one end of the room to the other.

Who acts: own mother, Ceres, Prince · What happens: confess, be, take, strap, crow, laugh · To what, where: Prince, charge, strapping baby, heels, one end

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 (own mother, Ceres, 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	4 palest	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palest	det
4	palest	pale	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wretchedest	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wretchedest	cc
7	wretchedest	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 palest	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 imp	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 imp	cc
10	puniest	puny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 imp	amod
11	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wretchedest	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 imp	nmod
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 confessed	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 confessed	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mother	amod
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 confessed	nsubj
20	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 palest	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 confessed	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 be	mark
23	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 confessed	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 took	advmod
26	Ceres	Cere	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 took	nsubj
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 took	advmod
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 confessed	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 charge	case
31	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obl
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 baby	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 baby	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 baby	cop
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 baby	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 baby	det
38	strapping	strap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 baby	amod
39	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 confessed	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 crowing	punct
41	crowing	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 baby	appos
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 laughing	punct
43	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 crowing	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 kicking	punct
45	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 crowing	conj
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 kicking	compound:prt
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 heels	nmod:poss
48	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 kicking	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 rolling	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 rolling	cc
51	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 crowing	conj
52	from	from	ADP	_	54 end	case
53	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 end	nummod
54	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 rolling	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 room	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 room	det
57	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 end	nmod
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 other	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 other	det
60	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 rolling	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 palest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confess	past	Prince's own mother	Prince				vn declare-29.4 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	be	to-infinitive	Prince's own mother not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	Ceres	Prince	charge		first property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in charge=Location
4	strap	gerund						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past	Prince	a strapping baby		now		tree rules
6	crow	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	laugh	gerund						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	kick up	gerund		Prince's heels				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent heel=Patient
9	roll	gerund				from one end of the room	to the other	vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from end=Initial_Location to other=Destination

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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