Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 70

But Mother Ceres was a great way off, and could not hear the cry.

Who acts: Mother · What happens: be, not hear · To what, where: great way, cry

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 (Mother), 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	_	2 Mother	cc
2	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 way	nsubj
3	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mother	flat
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	off	off	ADV	_	7 way	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hear	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hear	advmod
13	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 way	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cry	det
15	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mother	a great way				off property	tree rules
2	not hear	could		the cry					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus

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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