Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 53

How she contrived to maintain her resolution, and at the same time to keep herself tolerably plump and rosy, is more than I can explain; but some young ladies, I am given to understand, possess the faculty of living on air, and Proserpina seems to have possessed it too.

Who acts: child, I, faculty, Proserpina · What happens: contrive, maintain, keep, be, explain, give · To what, where: resolution, child, young ladies, faculty, air

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, I, faculty, Proserpina), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 contrived	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 contrived	nsubj
3	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 maintain	mark
5	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 contrived	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 resolution	nmod:poss
7	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maintain	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 time	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maintain	obl:unmarked
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 time	acl
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 keep	obj
17	tolerably	tolerably	ADV	_	18 plump	advmod
18	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 keep	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rosy	cc
20	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plump	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 more	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 more	cop
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 maintain	obj
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 explain	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 explain	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 explain	aux
27	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 more	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 given	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 given	cc
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 ladies	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ladies	amod
32	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 given	nsubj:pass
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ladies	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 given	nsubj
35	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 given	aux:pass
36	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 contrived	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 understand	mark
38	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 given	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 possess	punct
40	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 understand	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 faculty	det
42	faculty	faculty	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 possess	obj
43	of	of	SCONJ	_	44 living	mark
44	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 faculty	acl
45	on	on	ADP	_	46 air	case
46	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 living	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 seems	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 seems	cc
49	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 seems	nsubj
50	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 contrived	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	53 possessed	mark
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 possessed	aux
53	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 seems	xcomp
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 possessed	obj
55	too	too	ADV	_	53 possessed	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 contrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contrive	past	child					tree rules
2	maintain	to-infinitive	child not said here	child's resolution		time		vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent resolution=Theme
3	keep	to-infinitive	child not said here	child			plump property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
4	is	present					more property	tree rules
5	explain speech: assert	can	I					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	give	present · passive		some young ladies				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	understand	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	possess	infinitive		the faculty				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot faculty=Theme
9	live	gerund	the faculty not said here		air			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Location
10	seem	present	Proserpina					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
11	possess	to-infinitive · perfect	Proserpina not said here	faculty				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
12	resolve		child					nom resolution «communication transitive»: 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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