Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 95

Wondering that he had never thought of it before, the king now sent one of his trusty attendants with a large basket, to get some of the finest and juiciest pears, peaches, and plums which could anywhere be found in the upper world.

Who acts: cook, king · What happens: wonder, not think, send, get, find · To what, where: one, some, plums, upper world

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 (cook, king), 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	Wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sent	mark
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 thought	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 thought	advmod
6	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 sent	advcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	obl
9	before	before	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sent	nsubj
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 sent	advmod
14	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 sent	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 attendants	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 attendants	nmod:poss
18	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 attendants	amod
19	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 basket	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 basket	det
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 basket	amod
23	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 attendants	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 get	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 get	mark
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sent	advcl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 get	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	33 pears	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pears	det
30	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 pears	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 juiciest	cc
32	juiciest	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 finest	conj
33	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 some	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 peaches	punct
35	peaches	peach	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pears	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 plums	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 plums	cc
38	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sent	obl
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 found	nsubj:pass
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 found	aux
41	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 found	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 found	aux:pass
43	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 plums	acl:relcl
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 world	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 world	det
46	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 world	amod
47	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 found	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not think speech: other	past · perfect	cook				of fare; before property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	send	past	the king	one of cook's trusty attendants with a large basket		now	plums obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	the king not said here	some				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus
5	find	could · passive		plums	the upper world		anywhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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