Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 28

Now, although you may not have supposed it, Proserpina found it impossible to take leave of poor King Pluto without some regrets, and a good deal of compunction for not telling him about the pomegranate.

Who acts: Proserpina, good deal · What happens: not suppose, find, take, not tell, deal · To what, where: you, liberty, leave, Pluto, compunction · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Proserpina, good deal), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 found	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	although	although	SCONJ	_	8 supposed	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 supposed	nsubj:pass
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 supposed	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 supposed	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 supposed	aux
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 found	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 supposed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 supposed	punct
11	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	obj
14	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 found	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 impossible	csubj
17	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Pluto	case
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Pluto	amod
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Pluto	nmod:desc
21	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 leave	nmod
22	without	without	ADP	_	24 regrets	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 regrets	det
24	regrets	regret	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 take	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 telling	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 telling	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 deal	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 deal	amod
29	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 telling	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 compunction	case
31	compunction	compunction	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 deal	nmod
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 telling	mark
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 telling	advmod
34	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 found	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 telling	iobj
36	about	about	ADP	_	38 pomegranate	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pomegranate	det
38	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 telling	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not suppose	may · perfect · passive		you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme it=Attribute
2	find	past	Proserpina	liberty		now	impossible property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive		leave of poor Pluto King			without some regrets	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
4	not tell speech: assert	gerund	a good deal of compunction		Pluto		about the pomegranate	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about pomegranate=Topic
5	deal			compunction				nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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