Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 52

The child had declared, as you may remember, that she would not taste a mouthful of food as long as she should be compelled to remain in King Pluto's palace.

Who acts: child, you · What happens: declare, remember, not taste, compel, remain · To what, where: mouthful, child, palace

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 (child, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	aux
4	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 remember	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 remember	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 remember	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 remember	aux
9	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 declared	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taste	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 taste	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taste	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 taste	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 taste	advmod
15	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 remember	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mouthful	det
17	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taste	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 food	case
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mouthful	nmod
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 taste	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 compelled	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 compelled	nsubj:pass
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 compelled	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 compelled	aux:pass
26	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 long	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 remain	mark
28	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 compelled	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 palace	case
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Pluto	nmod:desc
31	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 palace	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Pluto	case
33	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 remain	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · perfect	the child				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	remember	may	you				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	not taste	would	child	a mouthful of food		long property	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme mouthful=Attribute
4	compel	should · passive		child			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	remain	to-infinitive			Pluto King's palace		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location

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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