Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 56

But her good mother had often told her of the hurtfulness of these things; and for that reason alone, if there had been no other, she would have resolutely refused to taste them.

Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: tell, be, refuse, not taste · To what, where: good mother, Proserpina, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hurtfulness	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hurtfulness	det
11	hurtfulness	hurtfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 things	case
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 things	det
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hurtfulness	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 reason	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 reason	cc
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 reason	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 reason	det
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	parataxis
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	19 reason	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 other	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 been	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 been	expl
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 been	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 other	cop
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 told	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 refused	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 refused	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 refused	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 refused	aux
32	resolutely	resolutely	ADV	_	33 refused	advmod
33	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 other	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 taste	mark
35	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 refused	xcomp
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 taste	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Proserpina's good mother	Proserpina	of the hurtfulness of this things; often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic
2	is	participle				other property	tree rules
3	refuse	would · perfect	Proserpina			resolutely property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not taste	to-infinitive	Proserpina not said here	people			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme they=Attribute

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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