Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 25
The young Proserpina ran quickly to a spot where, only the day before, she had seen a great many flowers.
Who acts: young Proserpina, Proserpina · What happens: run, see · To what, where: great many flowers
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 (young Proserpina, Proserpina), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Proserpina | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Proserpina | amod |
| 3 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 spot | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 spot | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 day | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 day | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ran | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 flowers | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flowers | amod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flowers | amod |
| 22 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seen | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the young Proserpina | day | to a spot result; quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spot=Result | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Proserpina | a great many flowers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
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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