Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 55

This was the more creditable to Proserpina, inasmuch as King Pluto had caused her to be tempted day by day, with all manner of sweetmeats, and richly-preserved fruits, and delicacies of every sort, such as young people are generally most fond of.

Who acts: This, King · What happens: be, cause, tempt, preserve · To what, where: Proserpina, inasmuch

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 (This, King), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 creditable	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 creditable	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 creditable	det
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 creditable	advmod
5	creditable	creditable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Proserpina	case
7	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 creditable	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 inasmuch	punct
9	inasmuch	inasmuch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Proserpina	appos
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 caused	mark
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 caused	nsubj
12	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 King	flat
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 caused	aux
14	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 inasmuch	acl:relcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 caused	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 tempted	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 tempted	aux:pass
18	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 caused	conj
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tempted	obl:unmarked
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 day	case
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tempted	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 manner	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 manner	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 manner	det
25	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tempted	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 sweetmeats	case
27	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 manner	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fruits	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fruits	cc
30	richly	richly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 preserved	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 richly	punct
32	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 fruits	amod
33	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 creditable	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 delicacies	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 delicacies	cc
36	delicacies	delicacy	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fruits	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 sort	case
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	39 sort	det
39	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 delicacies	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fond	punct
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	44 people	case
42	as	as	ADP	_	41 such	fixed
43	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 people	amod
44	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 fond	obl
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 fond	cop
46	generally	generally	ADV	_	48 fond	advmod
47	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 fond	amod
48	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fruits	amod
49	of	of	ADP	_	48 fond	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 creditable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	This		Proserpina		creditable property	tree rules
2	cause	past · perfect	King	inasmuch not said here	Proserpina			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition she=Patient
3	tempt	to-infinitive · passive	King not said here			day		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	preserve	participle						vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is	present					such young people; fond, generally 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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