Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 14

"O no, dear Proserpina," cried the sea nymphs; "we dare not go with you upon the dry land.

Who acts: dear Proserpina, we · What happens: cry, not go · To what, where: sea nymphs · 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 (dear Proserpina, we), 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	_	6 Proserpina	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	6 Proserpina	discourse
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 Proserpina	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Proserpina	punct
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Proserpina	amod
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Proserpina	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nymphs	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nymphs	compound
12	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cried	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
16	dare	dare	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 go	advmod
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 go	obl
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 land	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 land	det
23	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 land	amod
24	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	dear Proserpina	the sea nymphs					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nymph=Topic
2	not go in a quote	dare	we					with you; upon the dry land	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary

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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