Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 33
"The darlings!" cried Proserpina; and then she thought to herself, "I was looking at that spot only a moment ago.
Who acts: darlings, Proserpina · What happens: cry, think, look · To what, where: 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 (darlings, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 darlings | det |
| 3 | darlings | darling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 darlings | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 darlings | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 thought | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 thought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looking | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 looking | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 looking | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 looking | aux |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thought | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 spot | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 spot | det |
| 22 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looking | obl |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 moment | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 moment | det |
| 25 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looking | obl |
| 26 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 19 looking | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the darlings | Proserpina | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proserpina=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Proserpina | Proserpina | then | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | look in a quote | past · progressive | Proserpina | moment | at that spot; ago property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spot=Theme |
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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