Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 90

Your head cook is always baking, and stewing, and roasting, and rolling out paste, and contriving one dish or another, which he imagines may be to my liking.

Who acts: head cook, one dish · What happens: bake, stew, roast, roll out, contrive, imagine · To what, where: paste, one dish

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 (head cook, one dish), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cook	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cook	compound
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 baking	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 baking	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 baking	advmod
6	baking	bake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stewing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stewing	cc
9	stewing	stew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 baking	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 roasting	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 roasting	cc
12	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 stewing	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rolling	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rolling	cc
15	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 baking	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 rolling	compound:prt
17	paste	paste	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rolling	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 contriving	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 contriving	cc
20	contriving	contrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 baking	conj
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 dish	nummod
22	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 contriving	obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 another	cc
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 dish	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 imagines	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 imagines	nsubj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 imagines	nsubj
28	imagines	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 dish	acl:relcl
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 liking	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 liking	cop
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 liking	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 liking	nmod:poss
33	liking	liking	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 contriving	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 baking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bake	present · progressive	Your head cook		always property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stew	gerund	Your head cook not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	roast	gerund	Your head cook not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	roll out	gerund	Your head cook not said here	paste		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paste=Agent
5	contrive	gerund	Your head cook not said here	one dish		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Result
6	imagine	present	one dish			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	is	may			to my liking	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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