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Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 88

In asking this question, the king of the mines had a very cunning purpose; for, you will recollect, if Proserpina tasted a morsel of food in his dominions, she would never afterwards be at liberty to quit them.

Who acts: king, you, Proserpina · What happens: ask, have, recollect, taste, be, quit · To what, where: question, cunning purpose, morsel, dominions, liberty

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 (king, you, 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

markadvcldetobjpunctdetnsubjcasedetnmoddetadvmodamodobjpunctmarkpunctnsubjauxconjpunctmarknsubjccompdetobjcasenmodcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjauxadvmodadvmodcopcaseparataxismarkaclobjpunctrootInSCONJaskingVERBthisDETquestionNOUN,PUNCTtheDETkingNOUNofADPtheDETminesNOUNhadVERBaDETveryADVcunningADJpurposeNOUN;PUNCTforSCONJ,PUNCTyouPRONwillAUXrecollectVERB,PUNCTifSCONJProserpinaPROPNtastedVERBaDETmorselNOUNofADPfoodNOUNinADPhisPRONdominionsNOUN,PUNCTshePRONwouldAUXneverADVafterwardsADVbeAUXatADPlibertyNOUNtoPARTquitVERBthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninSCONJ_2 askingmark
2askingaskVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 hadadvcl
3thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 questiondet
4questionquestionNOUNNumber=Sing2 askingobj
5,,PUNCT_2 askingpunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 kingdet
7kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing11 hadnsubj
8ofofADP_10 minescase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 minesdet
10minesmineNOUNNumber=Plur7 kingnmod
11hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 purposedet
13veryveryADV_14 cunningadvmod
14cunningcunningADJDegree=Pos15 purposeamod
15purposepurposeNOUNNumber=Sing11 hadobj
16;;PUNCT_21 recollectpunct
17forforSCONJ_21 recollectmark
18,,PUNCT_17 forpunct
19youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs21 recollectnsubj
20willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin21 recollectaux
21recollectrecollectVERBVerbForm=Inf11 hadconj
22,,PUNCT_25 tastedpunct
23ififSCONJ_25 tastedmark
24ProserpinaProserpinaPROPNNumber=Sing25 tastednsubj
25tastedtasteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 recollectccomp
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 morseldet
27morselmorselNOUNNumber=Sing25 tastedobj
28ofofADP_29 foodcase
29foodfoodNOUNNumber=Sing27 morselnmod
30ininADP_32 dominionscase
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 dominionsnmod:poss
32dominionsdominionNOUNNumber=Plur25 tastedobl
33,,PUNCT_40 libertypunct
34sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 libertynsubj
35wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin40 libertyaux
36neverneverADVPronType=Neg37 afterwardsadvmod
37afterwardsafterwardsADV_40 libertyadvmod
38bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf40 libertycop
39atatADP_40 libertycase
40libertylibertyNOUNNumber=Sing21 recollectparataxis
41totoPART_42 quitmark
42quitquitVERBVerbForm=Inf40 libertyacl
43themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs42 quitobj
44..PUNCT_11 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askgerundthe king of the mines not said herethis questionvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2havepastthe king of the minesa cunning purposevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Patient
3recollectfutureyouvn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4taste a condition, not said to happenpastProserpinaa morsel of foodKing's dominionsvn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme in dominion=Location
5iswouldProserpinalibertyafterwards propertytree rules
6quitto-infinitiveyou not said heredominions = dominionvn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source

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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