Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 58

I had not swallowed a morsel; but--dear mother, I hope it was no harm--but six of the pomegranate seeds, I am afraid, remained in my mouth."

Who acts: I, morsel, six · What happens: not swallow, hope, be, remain · To what, where: morsel, harm, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, morsel, six), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 swallowed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swallowed	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 swallowed	advmod
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 morsel	det
6	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallowed	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 hope	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 hope	cc
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 mother	punct
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mother	amod
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hope	dislocated
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mother	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 hope	nsubj
14	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 swallowed	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 harm	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 harm	cop
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 harm	det
18	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hope	ccomp
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 afraid	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 afraid	cc
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 afraid	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 seeds	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 seeds	det
24	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seeds	compound
25	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 six	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 afraid	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 afraid	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 afraid	cop
29	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hope	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 remained	punct
31	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 afraid	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 mouth	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mouth	nmod:poss
34	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 remained	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swallowed	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 swallowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not swallow	past · perfect	I	a morsel			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient
2	hope	present	I			dear mother dislocated	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	past	morsel	no harm			tree rules
4	is	present	six of the pomegranate seeds			afraid property	tree rules
5	remain	participle	six of the pomegranate seeds not said here		my mouth		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mouth=Location

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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