Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 6

"Yes, child," answered Mother Ceres. "

Who acts: child · What happens: answer · To what, where: Mother Ceres

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 (child), 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	_	7 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 child	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ceres	compound
9	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	child		Mother Ceres				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ceres=Eventuality

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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