Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 26

These, however, were now a little past their bloom; and wishing to give her friends the freshest and loveliest blossoms, she strayed farther into the fields, and found some that made her scream with delight.

Who acts: These, Proserpina, some, heads · What happens: be, wish, give, stray, find, make · To what, where: freshest blossoms, friends, 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 (These, Proserpina, some, heads), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 little	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 little	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 little	cop
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 little	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	past	past	ADP	_	11 bloom	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bloom	nmod:poss
11	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 little	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 wishing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wishing	cc
14	wishing	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 little	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 give	mark
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wishing	xcomp
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friends	nmod:poss
18	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 give	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 blossoms	det
20	freshest	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 blossoms	amod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 loveliest	cc
22	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 freshest	conj
23	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 give	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 strayed	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 strayed	nsubj
26	strayed	stray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wishing	parataxis
27	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 strayed	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 fields	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fields	det
30	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 farther	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 found	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 found	cc
33	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 strayed	conj
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 made	nsubj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 made	nsubj
36	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 found	ccomp
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 made	obj
38	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 made	xcomp
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 delight	case
40	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 scream	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 little	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	These			now	past heads's bloom; however, little property	tree rules
2	wish	gerund	These not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	These not said here	the freshest blossoms	Proserpina's friends			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient blossom=Theme
4	stray	past	Proserpina				far property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	Proserpina not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	make	past	some	Proserpina				tree rules
7	scream speech: express	infinitive	Proserpina not said here				with delight	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with delight=Theme
8	bloom		heads = head					nom bloom «process intransitive»: poss=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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