Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 6
Their wonder was the greater, because he was never seen to taste any food; not even so much as a cup of milk.
Who acts: wonder, Prince, women · What happens: be, not see, taste, wonder · To what, where: Prince, food
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 (wonder, Prince, women), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wonder | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 greater | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 greater | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 greater | det |
| 5 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 seen | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 seen | advmod |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 greater | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 taste | mark |
| 13 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seen | xcomp |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 food | det |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taste | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 much | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 much | advmod |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seen | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 cup | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cup | det |
| 23 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 much | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 milk | case |
| 25 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cup | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 greater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | women's wonder | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | taste | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | any food | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme food=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | wonder | women = woman | nom wonder «feeling 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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