Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 60

As is always the case with children in trouble, Proserpina's first thought was to call for her mother.

Who acts: first thought, Proserpina · What happens: be, think

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 (first thought, 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	As	as	ADP	_	5 case	case
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 case	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 case	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 case	det
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 call	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 case	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 trouble	case
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 children	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 case	punct
11	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thought	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Proserpina	case
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 thought	amod
14	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 call	nsubj:outer
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 call	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 call	mark
17	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 mother	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 call	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		as the case; with children in trouble; always property	tree rules
2	is	past	Proserpina's first thought	for Proserpina's mother; call property	tree rules
3	think		Proserpina		nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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