Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 57
But Proserpina was so alarmed, that she wished for nothing but to get out of his reach.
Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: alarm, wish, get out · To what, where: Proserpina, reach
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 alarmed | cc |
| 2 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 alarmed | advmod |
| 5 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wished | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wished | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wished | nsubj |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 nothing | case |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 wished | obl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 reach | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 reach | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 reach | nmod:poss |
| 18 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | Proserpina | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | Proserpina | for nothing | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for nothing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get out | to-infinitive | Proserpina not said here | personage's reach | 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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