Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 50

He requested to be shown immediately into the king's presence; and Pluto, who heard his voice from the top of the stairs, and who loved to recreate himself with Quicksilver's merry talk, called out to him to come up.

Who acts: Quicksilver, Pluto · What happens: request, show, hear, love, recreate, call out · To what, where: presence, voice, top, Quicksilver, merry talk

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 (Quicksilver, Pluto), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 requested	nsubj
2	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 shown	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 shown	aux:pass
5	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 requested	xcomp
6	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	5 shown	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	11 presence	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 presence	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shown	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
14	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 heard	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 requested	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 voice	nmod:poss
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 top	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 top	det
22	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 stairs	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stairs	det
25	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 top	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 loved	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 loved	cc
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 loved	nsubj
29	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 recreate	mark
31	recreate	recreate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 loved	xcomp
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 recreate	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 talk	case
34	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 talk	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Quicksilver	case
36	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 talk	amod
37	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 recreate	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 called	punct
39	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 talk	acl
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 called	compound:prt
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 called	obl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 come	mark
44	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 called	advcl
45	up	up	ADV	_	44 come	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 requested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	request	past	Quicksilver					vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show	to-infinitive · passive	Quicksilver not said here			the king's presence	immediately property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: into presence=Recipient
3	hear	past	Pluto	Quicksilver's voice		the top of the stairs		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent voice=Topic from top=Source
4	love	past						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	recreate not said to happen	to-infinitive		Quicksilver			with Quicksilver's merry talk	tree rules
6	call out speech: assert	participle		Quicksilver's merry talk not said here	Quicksilver			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
7	come up	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	talk		Quicksilver					nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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