Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 18
"It is a great pity," said Proserpina. "
Who acts: break, great pity · What happens: be, say · To what, where: great pity · 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 (break, great pity), 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 pity | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pity | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pity | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pity | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pity | amod |
| 6 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pity | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pity | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Proserpina | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Proserpina | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | break | a great pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a great pity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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