Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 66

There is some comfort in making him so happy; and so, upon the whole, dearest mother, let us be thankful that he is not to keep me the whole year round."

Who acts: comfort, whole dearest mother, us · What happens: be, make, let, not be · To what, where: comfort, us

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 (comfort, whole dearest mother, us), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 comfort	det
4	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 making	mark
6	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 comfort	acl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 making	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 happy	advmod
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 making	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	21 let	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mother	punct
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 mother	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mother	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mother	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mother	punct
18	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 mother	amod
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 let	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mother	punct
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 is	parataxis
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 thankful	cop
24	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 let	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 keep	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 keep	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 keep	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 keep	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 keep	mark
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thankful	advcl
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 keep	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 year	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 year	amod
34	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	obl:unmarked
35	round	round	ADV	_	30 keep	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	some comfort		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	gerund	some comfort not said here	comfort			happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
3	let	infinitive	the whole dearest mother	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	is	infinitive	us not said here				thankful property	tree rules
5	not is	present	comfort			year	keep, round property	tree rules

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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