Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 92

I have no appetite for anything in the world, unless it were a slice of bread, of my mother's own baking, or a little fruit out of her garden."

Who acts: I, appetite, mother · What happens: have, be, bake · To what, where: appetite, slice

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, appetite, mother), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 appetite	det
4	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 anything	case
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 appetite	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anything	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 slice	punct
11	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	15 slice	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 slice	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 slice	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 slice	det
15	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 bread	case
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slice	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 baking	punct
19	of	of	ADP	_	24 baking	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 baking	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 mother	case
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 baking	amod
24	baking	baking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slice	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fruit	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 fruit	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fruit	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fruit	amod
29	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slice	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 garden	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 garden	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 garden	nmod:poss
33	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fruit	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	no appetite	for anything	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	appetite	a slice and my mother's own baking or a little fruit out Mother's garden	of bread	tree rules
3	bake		my mother			nom baking «act 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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