Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 29
She even shed a tear or two, thinking how lonely and cheerless the great palace would seem to him, with all its ugly glare of artificial light, after she herself--his one little ray of natural sunshine, whom he had stolen, to be sure, but only because he valued her so much--after she should have departed.
Who acts: deal, great palace, Pluto · What happens: shed, think, cheerless, seem, steal, be · To what, where: tear, Pluto, one little ray, deal, natural sunshine · 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 (deal, great palace, Pluto), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shed | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 shed | advmod |
| 3 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tear | det |
| 5 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shed | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 two | cc |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 tear | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 shed | advcl |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 lonely | advmod |
| 11 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seem | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cheerless | cc |
| 13 | cheerless | cheerless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lonely | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 palace | amod |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seem | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 seem | aux |
| 18 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thinking | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seem | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 glare | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 glare | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 glare | det:predet |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 glare | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 glare | amod |
| 26 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seem | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 light | case |
| 28 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 light | amod |
| 29 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 glare | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 herself | punct |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 herself | case |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 herself | nsubj |
| 33 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 seem | obl |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 ray | punct |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 ray | nmod:poss |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 ray | nummod |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ray | amod |
| 38 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 herself | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 sunshine | case |
| 40 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 sunshine | amod |
| 41 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ray | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 stolen | punct |
| 43 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 stolen | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 stolen | aux |
| 46 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 ray | parataxis |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 sure | punct |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 sure | mark |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 sure | cop |
| 50 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 stolen | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 valued | punct |
| 52 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 56 valued | cc |
| 53 | only | only | ADV | _ | 56 valued | advmod |
| 54 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 56 valued | mark |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 valued | nsubj |
| 56 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shed | conj |
| 57 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 valued | obj |
| 58 | so | so | ADV | _ | 59 much | advmod |
| 59 | much | much | ADV | _ | 56 valued | advmod |
| 60 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 65 departed | punct |
| 61 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 65 departed | mark |
| 62 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 departed | nsubj |
| 63 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 65 departed | aux |
| 64 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 65 departed | aux |
| 65 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 56 valued | conj |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shed | past | deal | a tear | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | deal not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cheerless | present | the great palace not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seem | would | the great palace | Pluto | after deal | with palace's ugly glare of artificial light | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||
| 5 | steal | past · perfect · passive | Pluto's one little ray of natural sunshine | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | value | past | Pluto | deal | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | depart | should · perfect | deal | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | ray | Pluto | natural sunshine | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent 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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