Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 37

The grass and the grain began to sprout with tenfold vigor and luxuriance, to make up for the dreary months that had been wasted in barrenness.

Who acts: grass · What happens: begin, sprout, make up, waste · To what, where: dreary months, barrenness

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 (grass), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grain	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grain	det
5	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grass	conj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sprout	mark
8	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 vigor	case
10	tenfold	tenfold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vigor	compound
11	vigor	vigor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sprout	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 luxuriance	cc
13	luxuriance	luxuriance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vigor	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sprout	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 make	compound:prt
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 months	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 months	det
20	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 months	amod
21	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 make	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 wasted	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wasted	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 wasted	aux:pass
25	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 months	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 barrenness	case
27	barrenness	barrenness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wasted	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the grass and the grain					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sprout	to-infinitive	the grass and the grain not said here				with tenfold vigor and luxuriance	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with vigor=Theme
3	make up	to-infinitive	the grass and the grain not said here			month		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	waste	past · perfect · passive		the dreary months	barrenness			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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