Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 6

This was the first fruit she had seen there, and the last she was ever likely to see; and unless she ate it up immediately, it would grow drier than it already was, and be wholly unfit to eat.

Who acts: This, choice, last, fruit · What happens: be, see, eat up, grow, eat · To what, where: first fruit, fruit

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 (This, choice, last, fruit), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fruit	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fruit	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fruit	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 fruit	amod
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fruit	acl:relcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 seen	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 likely	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 likely	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 last	det
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 likely	nsubj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 likely	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 likely	cop
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 likely	advmod
17	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seen	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 likely	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 grow	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 grow	cc
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	24 ate	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ate	nsubj
24	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 grow	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ate	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 ate	compound:prt
27	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	24 ate	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ate	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 grow	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 grow	aux
31	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fruit	parataxis
32	drier	dry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 grow	xcomp
33	than	than	SCONJ	_	36 was	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 was	nsubj
35	already	already	ADV	_	36 was	advmod
36	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 drier	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 unfit	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 unfit	cc
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 unfit	cop
40	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	41 unfit	advmod
41	unfit	unfit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grow	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 eat	mark
43	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 unfit	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fruit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the first fruit				tree rules
2	see	past · perfect	choice	the first fruit not said here	there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus
3	is	past	the last			ever	likely property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	the last not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	eat up a condition, not said to happen	past	choice	fruit			immediately property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	grow	would	fruit				dry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	be	past	fruit					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	infinitive	fruit not said here				unfit, wholly property	tree rules
9	eat	to-infinitive	fruit not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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