Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 94

The cook's made dishes and artificial dainties were not half so delicious, in the good child's opinion, as the simple fare to which Mother Ceres had accustomed her.

Who acts: made dishes, Mother, good child · What happens: make, not be, accustom, opine · To what, where: child

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 (made dishes, Mother, good child), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dishes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cook	case
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dishes	amod
5	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 delicious	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dainties	cc
7	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dainties	amod
8	dainties	dainty	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dishes	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 delicious	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 delicious	advmod
11	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 delicious	advmod
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 delicious	advmod
13	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 opinion	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	20 opinion	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 child	amod
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opinion	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 child	case
20	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 delicious	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fare	punct
22	as	as	ADP	_	25 fare	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fare	det
24	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fare	amod
25	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opinion	appos
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 accustomed	obl
28	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 accustomed	nsubj
29	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Mother	flat
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 accustomed	aux
31	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 fare	acl:relcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 accustomed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 delicious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	not is	past	the cook's made dishes and artificial dainties		delicious, half property	tree rules
3	accustom	past · perfect	Mother	child	to the simple fare	tree rules
4	opine		the good child			nom opinion «cognition 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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