Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 47
Does it presume to be green, when I have bidden it be barren, until my daughter shall be restored to my arms?"
Who acts: earth, I · What happens: presume, be, bid, restore · To what, where: earth, daughter, arms
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 (earth, I), 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 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 presume | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 presume | nsubj |
| 3 | presume | presume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 green | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 green | cop |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 presume | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bidden | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 bidden | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bidden | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bidden | aux |
| 11 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 presume | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bidden | obj |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 barren | cop |
| 14 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bidden | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 restored | punct |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 restored | mark |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 restored | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 restored | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 restored | aux:pass |
| 21 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bidden | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 arms | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arms | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 restored | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 presume | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 presume | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | presume | present · do-support | earth | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | earth not said here | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bid | present · perfect | I | earth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | I not said here | barren property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | restore | shall · passive | my daughter | my arms | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to arm=Recipient |
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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