Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 56

But to-day, they brought me a pomegranate (a very dry one it was, and all shriveled up, till there was little left of it but seeds and skin), and having seen no fruit for so long a time, and being faint with hunger, I was tempted just to bite it.

Who acts: lips · What happens: bring, shrivel up, leave, see, be, tempt · To what, where: pomegranate, me, all, seeds, fruit, I

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 (lips), 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	_	7 brought	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 day	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 to	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brought	nsubj
7	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 brought	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pomegranate	det
10	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 one	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 dry	advmod
14	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pomegranate	appos
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 was	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 one	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shriveled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shriveled	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 shriveled	nsubj:pass
21	shriveled	shrivel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 brought	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 shriveled	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 left	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 left	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 left	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 left	aux:pass
27	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 left	advmod
28	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 shriveled	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 left	obl
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 seeds	cc
32	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 left	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 skin	cc
34	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seeds	conj
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 seeds	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 seen	cc
38	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 seen	aux
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 left	conj
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 fruit	det
41	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obj
42	for	for	ADP	_	46 time	case
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 long	advmod
44	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 time	amod
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 time	det
46	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 faint	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 faint	cc
49	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 faint	cop
50	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 seen	conj
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 hunger	case
52	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 faint	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 tempted	punct
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 tempted	nsubj:pass
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 tempted	aux:pass
56	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 faint	conj
57	just	just	ADV	_	59 bite	advmod
58	to	to	PART	_	59 bite	mark
59	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 tempted	xcomp
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 bite	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	lips = lip	a pomegranate	me		day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination pomegranate=Theme
2	shrivel up	participle · passive		all					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	leave	past · passive		seeds and skin		there		of pomegranate; little property	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: seed=Source of it=Destination
4	see	gerund · perfect		no fruit			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus
5	is	gerund						with hunger; faint property	tree rules
6	tempt	past · passive		I					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	bite	to-infinitive		fruit					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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