Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 96

Unfortunately, however, this was during the time when Ceres had forbidden any fruits or vegetables to grow; and, after seeking all over the earth, King Pluto's servant found only a single pomegranate, and that so dried up as not to be worth eating.

Who acts: this, Ceres, servant · What happens: be, forbid, grow, seek, find, dry up · To what, where: fruits, earth, single pomegranate, that

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 (this, Ceres, servant), 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	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	9 time	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Unfortunately	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	9 time	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 time	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 time	cop
7	during	during	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 forbidden	advmod
11	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 forbidden	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forbidden	aux
13	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 time	acl:relcl
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 fruits	det
15	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forbidden	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 vegetables	cc
17	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fruits	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 grow	mark
19	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forbidden	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 found	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 found	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 and	punct
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	24 seeking	mark
24	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 found	advcl
25	all	all	ADV	_	28 earth	advmod
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 earth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 earth	det
28	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seeking	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seeking	punct
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 servant	nmod:poss
31	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 King	flat
32	's	's	PART	_	30 King	case
33	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 found	nsubj
34	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 time	parataxis
35	only	only	ADV	_	38 pomegranate	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pomegranate	det
37	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pomegranate	amod
38	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 found	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dried	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 dried	cc
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 dried	nsubj:pass
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 dried	advmod
43	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 found	conj
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 dried	compound:prt
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 worth	mark
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 worth	advmod
47	to	to	PART	_	49 worth	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 worth	cop
49	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 dried	advcl
50	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 worth	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this			during the time	however, unfortunately property	tree rules
2	forbid	past · perfect	Ceres	any fruits or vegetables				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fruit=Theme
3	grow	to-infinitive	Ceres not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seek	gerund	King's servant not said here		the earth			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent over earth=Location
5	find	past	King's servant	a single pomegranate				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomegranate=Topic
6	dry up	participle · passive		that				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
7	not is	to-infinitive					worth property	tree rules
8	eat	gerund						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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