Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 47
Then laughing at herself for so childish a notion, she made another effort: up came the shrub, and Proserpina staggered back, holding the stem triumphantly in her hand, and gazing at the deep hole which its roots had left in the soil.
Who acts: notion, Proserpina · What happens: laugh, make, come, stagger back, hold, gaze · To what, where: effort, shrub, stem, hand, roots, 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 (notion, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 laughing | advmod |
| 2 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 made | advcl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 herself | case |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 laughing | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 childish | case |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 childish | advmod |
| 7 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 laughing | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 notion | det |
| 9 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 childish | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughing | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 effort | det |
| 14 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shrub | det |
| 19 | shrub | shrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 staggered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 staggered | cc |
| 22 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 staggered | nsubj |
| 23 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 staggered | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 holding | punct |
| 26 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 staggered | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stem | det |
| 28 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 holding | obj |
| 29 | triumphantly | triumphantly | ADV | _ | 26 holding | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 hand | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hand | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 holding | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 gazing | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 gazing | cc |
| 35 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 made | advcl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 hole | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hole | det |
| 38 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 hole | amod |
| 39 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gazing | obl |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 left | obj |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 roots | nmod:poss |
| 42 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 left | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 left | aux |
| 44 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 hole | acl:relcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 soil | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 soil | det |
| 47 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 left | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | notion not said here | then | at Mother | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | make | past | notion | another effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product | ||||
| 3 | come | past | notion not said here | the shrub | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shrub=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stagger back | past | Proserpina | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | hold | gerund | Proserpina not said here | the stem | Mother's hand | triumphantly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stem=Theme in hand=Location | ||
| 6 | gaze | gerund | notion not said here | at the deep hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hole=Theme | ||||
| 7 | leave | past · perfect · passive | hole's roots | the soil | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |
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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