Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 65

He certainly did very wrong to carry me off; but then, as he says, it was but a dismal sort of life for him, to live in that great gloomy place, all alone; and it has made a wonderful change in his spirits to have a little girl to run up stairs and down.

Who acts: King, six, little girl · What happens: do, carry off, say, be, live, make · To what, where: me, great gloomy place, six, little girl, stairs, life · 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 (King, six, little girl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 wrong	advmod
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 carry	mark
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wrong	xcomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 carry	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 carry	compound:prt
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 says	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 says	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 then	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 says	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 him	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 him	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 him	cop
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 him	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sort	det
22	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sort	amod
23	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 him	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 life	case
25	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sort	nmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 says	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 live	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 live	mark
30	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 says	ccomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 place	case
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 place	nsubj
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 place	amod
34	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 place	amod
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 live	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 alone	punct
37	all	all	ADV	_	38 alone	advmod
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	35 place	advmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 made	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 made	cc
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 made	nsubj:pass
42	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 made	aux
43	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 change	det
45	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 change	amod
46	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 made	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 spirits	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 spirits	nmod:poss
49	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 change	nmod
50	to	to	PART	_	51 have	mark
51	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 made	advcl
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 girl	det
53	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 girl	amod
54	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 have	obj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 run	mark
56	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 have	xcomp
57	up	up	ADP	_	56 run	compound:prt
58	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 run	obj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 down	cc
60	down	down	ADV	_	56 run	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	King				certainly, wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry off	to-infinitive	King not said here	me				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	King			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past	six				for Pluto	tree rules
5	live	to-infinitive			great gloomy place			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
6	make	present · perfect · passive		six				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary change=Product
7	have	to-infinitive		a little girl				tree rules
8	run up	to-infinitive	a little girl not said here	stairs				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory
9	sort			life				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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