Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 60

Neither was all the dazzle of the precious stones, which flamed with their own light, worth one gleam of natural sunshine; nor could the most brilliant of the many-colored gems, which Proserpina had for playthings, vie with the simple beauty of the flowers she used to gather.

Who acts: Neither, precious stones, Proserpina, stones · What happens: be, flame, color, have, vie, use · To what, where: dazzle, colored gems, flowers

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 (Neither, precious stones, Proserpina, stones), 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	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	5 dazzle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dazzle	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dazzle	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dazzle	det
5	dazzle	dazzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 stones	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stones	det
8	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stones	amod
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dazzle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flamed	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 flamed	nsubj
12	flamed	flame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stones	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 light	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 light	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 light	amod
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flamed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gleam	punct
18	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gleam	amod
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 gleam	nummod
20	gleam	gleam	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 light	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 sunshine	case
22	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sunshine	amod
23	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gleam	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 brilliant	punct
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	29 brilliant	cc
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 brilliant	aux
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 brilliant	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 brilliant	advmod
29	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dazzle	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	35 gems	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 gems	det
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 colored	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 many	punct
34	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 gems	amod
35	gems	gem	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 brilliant	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 had	obj
38	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gems	acl:relcl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 playthings	case
41	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 had	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 vie	punct
43	vie	vie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 brilliant	conj
44	with	with	ADP	_	47 beauty	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 beauty	det
46	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 beauty	amod
47	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 vie	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 flowers	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 flowers	det
50	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 beauty	nmod
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 used	nsubj
52	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 flowers	acl:relcl
53	to	to	PART	_	54 gather	mark
54	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 used	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dazzle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Neither	all dazzle	of the precious stones	tree rules
2	flame	past	the precious stones		with stones's own light and worth one gleam of natural sunshine	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme
3	color	participle				vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	Proserpina	the colored gems	for playthings	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
5	vie	present	Neither not said here		with the simple beauty of the flowers	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with beauty=Co-Agent
6	use	past	Proserpina	the flowers not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent flower=Theme clause=Eventuality
7	gather	to-infinitive	Proserpina not said here			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	light		stones = stone			nom light «phenomenon 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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