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

But there was no choice of such things in King Pluto's palace.

Who acts: choice · What happens: be

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 (choice), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 choice	det
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 things	case
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 choice	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 palace	case
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Pluto	nmod:desc
11	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 palace	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Pluto	case
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 things	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no choice of such things in Pluto King's palace			there			vn exist-47.1 «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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