Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 42

Holding up her apron full of flowers with her left hand, Proserpina seized the large shrub with the other, and pulled, and pulled, but was hardly able to loosen the soil about its roots.

Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: hold up, seize, pull, be, loosen · To what, where: apron, large shrub, soil

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	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 seized	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Holding	compound:prt
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 apron	nmod:poss
4	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 apron	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 hand	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
10	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Holding	punct
13	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 seized	nsubj
14	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shrub	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shrub	amod
17	shrub	shrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seized	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shrub	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pulled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pulled	cc
23	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seized	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pulled	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pulled	cc
26	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pulled	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 able	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 able	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 able	cop
30	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	31 able	advmod
31	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seized	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 loosen	mark
33	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 soil	det
35	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 loosen	obj
36	about	about	ADP	_	38 roots	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 roots	nmod:poss
38	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 loosen	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold up	gerund	Proserpina not said here	Mother's apron		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot apron=Theme
2	seize	past	Proserpina	the large shrub	with the other	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrub=Theme
3	pull	past	Proserpina not said here			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pull	past	Proserpina not said here			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Proserpina not said here		able, hardly property	tree rules
6	loosen	to-infinitive	Proserpina not said here	the soil	about shrub's roots	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soil=Patient

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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