Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 44
But Mother Ceres, though naturally of an affectionate disposition, was now inexorable.
Who acts: Mother Ceres · What happens: be
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 (Mother Ceres), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 inexorable | cc |
| 2 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ceres | compound |
| 3 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 inexorable | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 disposition | punct |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 disposition | mark |
| 6 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 10 disposition | advmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 disposition | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 disposition | det |
| 9 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 disposition | amod |
| 10 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ceres | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ceres | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 inexorable | cop |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 inexorable | advmod |
| 14 | inexorable | inexorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 inexorable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mother Ceres | now | inexorable property | tree rules |
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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