Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 85
Well, I have not deserved it of you, after keeping you a prisoner for so many months, and starving you besides.
Who acts: I · What happens: not deserve, keep, starve · To what, where: face, 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 (I), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 deserved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 deserved | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deserved | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 deserved | advmod |
| 6 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deserved | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 deserved | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeping | punct |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 keeping | mark |
| 12 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 deserved | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 keeping | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 prisoner | det |
| 15 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeping | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 months | case |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 months | amod |
| 19 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 keeping | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 starving | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 starving | cc |
| 22 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 keeping | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 starving | obj |
| 24 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 starving | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deserve | present · perfect | I | face | of you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | gerund | you | month | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme prisoner=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | starve | gerund | you | 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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