Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 72

"Why should you be so frightened, my pretty child?" said he, trying to soften his rough voice. "

Who acts: you, stranger · What happens: be, say, try, soften · To what, where: rough voice · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, stranger), 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 frightened	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 frightened	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 frightened	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 frightened	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
7	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 child	nmod:poss
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 child	amod
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 frightened	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 frightened	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 frightened	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 trying	punct
17	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 soften	mark
19	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 trying	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 voice	nmod:poss
21	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 voice	amod
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 soften	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 trying	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 trying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	should	you		frightened property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	stranger			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	try	gerund	stranger not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	soften not said to happen	to-infinitive	stranger not said here	stranger's rough voice		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent voice=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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