Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 2

He set down the golden salver, with the wizened pomegranate upon it, and left the room.

Who acts: servant · What happens: set down, wizen, leave · To what, where: golden salver, room

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 salver	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 salver	amod
6	salver	salver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pomegranate	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 pomegranate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pomegranate	det
10	wizened	wizen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 pomegranate	amod
11	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salver	appos
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pomegranate	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 left	cc
16	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	set down	past	servant	the golden salver	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient salver=Result
2	wizen	participle			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	leave	past	servant not said here	the room	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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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