Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 29
Proserpina's apron was soon filled, and brimming over with delightful blossoms.
What happens: fill, brim over · To what, where: apron
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1434): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 apron | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Proserpina | case |
| 3 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 filled | aux:pass |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 filled | advmod |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brimming | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brimming | cc |
| 9 | brimming | brim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 filled | conj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 brimming | compound:prt |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blossoms | case |
| 12 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blossoms | amod |
| 13 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brimming | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | Proserpina's apron | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | brim over | gerund | with delightful blossoms | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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