Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 55
Until this very morning, not a morsel of food had passed my lips.
What happens: pass · To what, where: morsel
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: 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 | Until | until | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 morning | advmod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 morsel | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 morsel | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 morsel | det |
| 8 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 food | case |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 morsel | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 passed | aux |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lips | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 passed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | a morsel of food | morning | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient lip=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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