Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 54
"Do not be afraid," said he, with as cheerful a smile as he knew how to put on. "
Who acts: you, personage · What happens: not be, say, be, know, put on · 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 (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cheerful | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 cheerful | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 cheerful | case |
| 13 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 afraid | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smile | det |
| 15 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cheerful | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 knew | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cheerful | advcl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 put | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 put | mark |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 knew | ccomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 put | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | personage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | know | past | personage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | put on | to-infinitive | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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