Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 111
"Is it much farther?" asked Proserpina. "
Who acts: twilight · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Proserpina · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (twilight), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 farther | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 farther | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 farther | nsubj |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 farther | advmod |
| 5 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 farther | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 farther | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 farther | advcl |
| 9 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 farther | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 farther | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | twilight | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | twilight not said here | Proserpina | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent proserpina=Recipient |
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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