Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 53

As soon as this personage saw the affrighted Proserpina, he beckoned her to come a little nearer.

Who acts: personage · What happens: see, affright, beckon, come · To what, where: affrighted Proserpina, Proserpina

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 (personage), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 saw	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 saw	mark
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 personage	det
5	personage	personage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Proserpina	det
8	affrighted	affright	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Proserpina	amod
9	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beckoned	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 beckoned	nsubj
12	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 beckoned	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 beckoned	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 nearer	advmod
18	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 come	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	this personage	the affrighted Proserpina	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer proserpina=Stimulus
2	affright	participle				tree rules
3	beckon	past	personage	Proserpina		tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	personage not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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