Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 57

All this time, being of a cheerful and active disposition, the little damsel was not quite so unhappy as you may have supposed.

Who acts: little damsel · What happens: be, not be, suppose · To what, where: you

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 (little damsel), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det:predet
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 disposition	punct
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 disposition	cop
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 disposition	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 disposition	det
8	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 disposition	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 active	cc
10	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cheerful	conj
11	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 unhappy	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 damsel	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 damsel	amod
15	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 unhappy	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 unhappy	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 unhappy	advmod
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 unhappy	advmod
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 unhappy	advmod
20	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 disposition	parataxis
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 supposed	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 supposed	nsubj:pass
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 supposed	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 supposed	aux
25	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 unhappy	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			of a cheerful disposition	tree rules
2	not is	past	the little damsel		unhappy property	tree rules
3	suppose	may · perfect · passive		you		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=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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