Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 4

"Dear mother," said Proserpina, "I shall be very lonely while you are away.

Who acts: Dear mother, you · What happens: say, be · 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 (Dear mother, you), 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	_	3 mother	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lonely	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 lonely	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 lonely	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 lonely	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 lonely	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 lonely	advmod
14	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 away	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 away	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 away	cop
18	away	away	ADV	_	14 lonely	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dear mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	shall	Dear mother = mother	lonely property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	you	away property	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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