Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 28

Two or three times, moreover, she could not help thinking that a tuft of most splendid flowers had suddenly sprouted out of the earth before her very eyes, as if on purpose to tempt her a few steps farther.

Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: not help, think, sprout, tempt · To what, where: tuft, earth, Proserpina, purpose · 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 (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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 three	cc
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 moreover	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 times	punct
6	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	11 help	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 moreover	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 help	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 help	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 help	advmod
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 help	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 sprouted	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tuft	det
15	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sprouted	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
17	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 flowers	amod
18	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flowers	amod
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tuft	nmod
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sprouted	aux
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 sprouted	advmod
22	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 thinking	ccomp
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 earth	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 earth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 earth	det
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sprouted	obl
27	before	before	ADP	_	30 eyes	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 eyes	advmod
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 earth	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tempt	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 tempt	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 tempt	mark
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 purpose	case
35	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tempt	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 tempt	mark
37	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 help	conj
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tempt	obj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 steps	det
40	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 steps	amod
41	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 farther	obl:unmarked
42	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 tempt	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not help	could	Proserpina				moreover property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	think speech: other not said to happen	gerund	Proserpina not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sprout	past · perfect · passive		a tuft of most splendid flowers		the earth before Proserpina's eyes	suddenly property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source
4	tempt a condition, not said to happen	to-infinitive	Proserpina not said here		Proserpina	purpose	far property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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