Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 67
In a moment, Proserpina lost sight of the pleasant vale of Enna, in which she had always dwelt.
Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: lose, dwell, sight · To what, where: sight, Proserpina, pleasant vale
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 5 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 vale | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vale | det |
| 10 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vale | amod |
| 11 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Enna | case |
| 13 | Enna | Enna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 vale | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dwelt | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 dwelt | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dwelt | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dwelt | aux |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 dwelt | advmod |
| 20 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lost | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Proserpina | sight of the pleasant vale of Enna | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | dwell | past · perfect · passive | Proserpina | always property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | ||||
| 3 | sight | the pleasant vale of Enna | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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