Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 51

The grief of their separation had caused both of them to shed a great many tears; and now they shed a great many more, because their joy could not so well express itself in any other way.

Who acts: arms, grief, joy · What happens: cause, shed, not express, separate, joy · To what, where: grief, great many tears, a, joy, other way

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 (arms, grief, joy), 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 grief	det
2	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caused	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 separation	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 separation	nmod:poss
5	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grief	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caused	aux
7	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	det:predet
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caused	obl:agent
11	to	to	PART	_	12 shed	mark
12	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 caused	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tears	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tears	amod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tears	amod
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shed	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 shed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shed	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 shed	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 shed	nsubj
21	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caused	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shed	obj
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 a	conj
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 more	amod
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 great	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 express	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 express	mark
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 joy	nmod:poss
29	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 express	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 express	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 express	advmod
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 well	advmod
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 express	advmod
34	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 shed	conj
35	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 express	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 way	case
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 way	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 way	amod
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 express	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past · perfect · passive	arms = arm	the grief of arms's separation				tree rules
2	shed	to-infinitive	the grief of arms's separation not said here	a great many tears				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
3	shed	past	arms = arm	a		now		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location a=Source
4	not express	could	arms's joy	joy	any other way		well property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
5	separate		arms = arm					nom separation «state intransitive»: poss=agent
6	joy		arms = arm					nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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