Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 108

Proserpina peeped at his face through the gathering dusk, and hoped that he might not be so very wicked as she at first thought him.

Who acts: Proserpina, visage · What happens: peep, hope, not be, think · To what, where: visage

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 (Proserpina, visage), 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	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 peeped	nsubj
2	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 face	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peeped	obl
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 dusk	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dusk	det
8	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dusk	compound
9	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peeped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hoped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hoped	cc
12	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 peeped	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 wicked	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wicked	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wicked	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 wicked	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 wicked	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 wicked	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 wicked	advmod
20	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hoped	ccomp
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 she	case
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wicked	obl
23	at	at	SCONJ	_	25 thought	mark
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 thought	advmod
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hoped	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 peeped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	peep	past	Proserpina		dusk	at visage's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme
2	hope	past	Proserpina not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	not is	might	visage			as Proserpina; wicked property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Proserpina not said here	visage		first property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

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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