Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 17

But, then, you must consider, my dear child, that this vast palace is apt to be gloomy (although the precious stones certainly shine very bright), and that I am not of the most cheerful disposition, and that therefore it was a natural thing enough to seek for the society of some merrier creature than myself.

Who acts: you, vast palace, I, that · What happens: consider, be, shine, not be, seek · To what, where: natural thing

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, vast palace, I, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 consider	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 consider	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 consider	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 consider	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 consider	aux
7	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 child	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 child	amod
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consider	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 apt	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 apt	mark
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 palace	det
15	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 palace	amod
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 apt	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 apt	cop
18	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 consider	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	21 gloomy	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 gloomy	cop
21	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 apt	csubj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 shine	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	26 stones	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stones	det
25	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stones	amod
26	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 shine	obl
27	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	28 shine	advmod
28	shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gloomy	parataxis
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 bright	advmod
30	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shine	xcomp
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 shine	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 disposition	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 disposition	cc
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 disposition	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 disposition	nsubj
36	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 disposition	cop
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 disposition	advmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 disposition	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 disposition	det
40	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	41 cheerful	advmod
41	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 disposition	amod
42	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 apt	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 thing	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 thing	cc
45	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 thing	nsubj
46	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	51 thing	advmod
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 thing	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 thing	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 thing	det
50	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 thing	amod
51	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 disposition	appos
52	enough	enough	ADV	_	51 thing	advmod
53	to	to	PART	_	54 seek	mark
54	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 thing	acl
55	for	for	ADP	_	57 society	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 society	det
57	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 seek	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 creature	case
59	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	61 creature	det
60	merrier	merry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	61 creature	amod
61	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 society	nmod
62	than	than	ADP	_	63 myself	case
63	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	61 creature	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 consider	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	consider	must	you		then		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	this vast palace			apt property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive				gloomy property	tree rules
4	shine	present				although the precious stones; bright, certainly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is	present	I			of the cheerful disposition	tree rules
6	is a	past	that	a natural thing		enough, therefore property	tree rules
7	seek	to-infinitive	I not said here			for the society of some merrier creature than myself	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for society=Theme

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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