Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 43

It was really piteous to see the poor, starving cattle and sheep, how they followed behind Ceres, lowing and bleating, as if their instinct taught them to expect help from her; and everybody that was acquainted with her power besought her to have mercy on the human race, and, at all events, to let the grass grow.

Who acts: It, cattle, instinct, everybody, events, grass · What happens: be, see, starve, follow, low, bleat · To what, where: poor starving cattle, Ceres, cattle, help, instinct, mercy

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 (It, cattle, instinct, everybody), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 piteous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 piteous	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 piteous	advmod
4	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 piteous	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cattle	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cattle	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 starving	punct
10	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cattle	amod
11	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sheep	cc
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cattle	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 followed	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 followed	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 followed	nsubj
17	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cattle	parataxis
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 Ceres	case
19	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 followed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lowing	punct
21	lowing	low	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 followed	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bleating	cc
23	bleating	bleat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 lowing	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taught	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 taught	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 taught	mark
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 instinct	nmod:poss
28	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taught	nsubj
29	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taught	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 expect	mark
32	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 taught	xcomp
33	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 expect	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 expect	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 besought	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 besought	cc
38	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	45 besought	nsubj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 acquainted	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 acquainted	cop
41	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 everybody	acl:relcl
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 power	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 power	nmod:poss
44	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 acquainted	obl
45	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 piteous	conj
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 besought	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 have	mark
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 besought	xcomp
49	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
50	on	on	ADP	_	53 race	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 race	det
52	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 race	amod
53	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 let	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 let	cc
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 events	punct
57	at	at	ADP	_	59 events	case
58	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 events	det
59	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 let	nsubj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 let	punct
61	to	to	PART	_	62 let	mark
62	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 piteous	conj
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 grass	det
64	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 let	obj
65	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 let	xcomp
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 piteous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	It				piteous property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		the poor starving cattle and sheep				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cattle=Stimulus
3	starve	gerund						tree rules
4	follow	past	cattle			Ceres		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind ceres=Location
5	low	gerund	cattle not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bleat	gerund	cattle not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	teach speech: other	past	cattle's instinct		cattle			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
8	expect	to-infinitive	cattle's instinct not said here	help			from instinct	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme
9	is	past					with instinct's power; acquainted property	tree rules
10	beseech	past	everybody	instinct				tree rules
11	have	to-infinitive	everybody not said here	mercy		the human race		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Patient
12	let	to-infinitive	all events	the grass				tree rules
13	grow	infinitive	the grass not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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