Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 97

Nevertheless, since there was no better to be had, he brought this dry, old withered pomegranate home to the palace, put it on a magnificent golden salver, and carried it up to Proserpina.

Who acts: King, this · What happens: not be, have, bring, wither, pomegranate, put · To what, where: palace, pomegranate, magnificent golden salver, Proserpina

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 (King, this), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	7 better	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	5 was	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 better	cop
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 better	advmod
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 had	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	aux:pass
10	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 better	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	nsubj
13	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 better	conj
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 pomegranate	nsubj
15	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pomegranate	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dry	punct
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pomegranate	amod
18	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 pomegranate	amod
19	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obj
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 pomegranate	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 palace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 palace	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 salver	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 salver	det
29	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 salver	amod
30	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 salver	amod
31	salver	salver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 carried	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 carried	cc
34	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 carried	obj
36	up	up	ADP	_	34 carried	compound:prt
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 Proserpina	case
38	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 carried	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past					good, nevertheless property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive · passive						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»
3	bring	past	King			the palace		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to palace=Destination
4	wither	participle						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	pomegranate		this				home property	tree rules
6	put	infinitive	King not said here	pomegranate		a magnificent golden salver		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on salver=Destination
7	carry up	past	King not said here	pomegranate	Proserpina			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to proserpina=Destination

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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