Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 54

At any rate, it was now six months since she left the outside of the earth; and not a morsel, so far as the attendants were able to testify, had yet passed between her teeth.

Who acts: rate, Proserpina, attendants · What happens: be, leave, testify, pass · To what, where: six months, rate, outside, teeth

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 (rate, Proserpina, attendants), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 rate	case
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 rate	det
3	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 months	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rate	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 months	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 months	cop
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 six	advmod
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 months	nummod
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 left	obl:unmarked
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 left	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	nsubj
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 outside	det
14	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 outside	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 morsel	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 morsel	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 morsel	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 morsel	det
22	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 far	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 far	advmod
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 able	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 able	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 attendants	det
28	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 able	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 able	cop
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 left	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 testify	mark
32	testify	testify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 passed	punct
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 passed	aux
35	yet	yet	ADV	_	36 passed	advmod
36	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 left	conj
37	between	between	ADP	_	39 teeth	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 teeth	nmod:poss
39	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 passed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	rate	six months	any rate			tree rules
2	leave	past	Proserpina	the outside of the earth			a morsel obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outside=Theme
3	is	past	the attendants				able, far property	tree rules
4	testify speech: other	to-infinitive	the attendants not said here					vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pass	past · perfect	Proserpina not said here		Proserpina's teeth	yet		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between tooth=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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