Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 41

Mother Ceres had returned to her deserted home, and was sitting disconsolately on the doorstep, with her torch burning in her hand.

Who acts: Ceres, Mother, torch · What happens: return, desert, sit, burn · To what, where: Mother, doorstep, hand

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 (Ceres, Mother, torch), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deserted	nsubj
2	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 returned	aux
4	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Mother	acl:relcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 returned	obl
7	deserted	desert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 deserted	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sitting	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sitting	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 deserted	advcl
13	disconsolately	disconsolately	ADV	_	12 sitting	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 doorstep	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 doorstep	det
16	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 burning	punct
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	21 burning	mark
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 torch	nmod:poss
20	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 burning	nsubj
21	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sitting	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hand	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hand	nmod:poss
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 burning	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 deserted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past · perfect	Ceres	Mother not said here	mother			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mother=Theme to she=Destination
2	desert	past	Mother				home property	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	Mother not said here			the doorstep	disconsolately property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on doorstep=Location
4	burn	gerund	mother's torch			mother's hand		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location

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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