Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 1

Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields.

Who acts: Mother, Ceres · What happens: be, let, go · To what, where: Ceres, fields

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, Ceres), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fond	nsubj
2	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fond	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	cop
4	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	5 fond	advmod
5	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 daughter	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fond	obl
9	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
12	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	13 let	advmod
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fond	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 fields	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fields	det
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 go	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mother			of Ceres's daughter; exceedingly, fond property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	Mother not said here	Ceres		seldom property	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Ceres not said here		the fields	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_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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