Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 74

What! you have been gathering flowers?

Who acts: you · What happens: gather · To what, where: flowers

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), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 gathering	obl
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 gathering	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gathering	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 gathering	aux
6	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gathering	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gathering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	present · perfect · progressive	you	flowers					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme

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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