Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 27

Never had she met with such exquisite flowers before--violets so large and fragrant--roses with so rich and delicate a blush--such superb hyacinths and such aromatic pinks--and many others, some of which seemed to be of new shapes and colors.

Who acts: Proserpina, some · What happens: not meet, seem, be

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 (Proserpina, some), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 met	advmod
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flowers	amod
7	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flowers	amod
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 met	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 large	mark
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 violets	punct
11	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 large	nsubj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 large	advmod
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 met	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fragrant	cc
15	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 large	conj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 roses	punct
17	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 large	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 rich	case
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 rich	advmod
20	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 met	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 delicate	cc
22	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rich	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hyacinths	det
24	blush	blush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hyacinths	amod
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 blush	punct
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hyacinths	amod
27	superb	superb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hyacinths	amod
28	hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rich	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pinks	cc
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pinks	amod
31	aromatic	aromatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pinks	amod
32	pinks	pink	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hyacinths	conj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 others	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 others	cc
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 others	amod
36	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hyacinths	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seemed	punct
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 seemed	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 some	nmod
41	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hyacinths	parataxis
42	to	to	PART	_	46 shapes	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 shapes	cop
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 shapes	case
45	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 shapes	amod
46	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 seemed	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 colors	cc
48	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 shapes	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not meet	past · perfect	Proserpina	with such exquisite flowers	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with flower=Co-Agent
2	seem	past	some		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive		of new shapes and colors	tree rules

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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