Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 44

It was an enchanted torch, and should have kept burning till my child came back."

Who acts: torch, enchanted torch, child · What happens: enchant, be, keep, burn, come back · To what, where: enchanted torch

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 (torch, enchanted torch, child), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 torch	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 torch	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 torch	det
4	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 torch	amod
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 kept	aux
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 torch	acl:relcl
11	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 child	nmod:poss
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burning	advcl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 torch	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 torch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	enchant	participle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	torch	a enchanted torch	tree rules
3	keep	should · perfect		a enchanted torch not said here	tree rules
4	burn	gerund	a enchanted torch not said here		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come back	past	my child		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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