Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 82

"Let me go home!" cried Proserpina. "

Who acts: me · What happens: let, go, cry · To what, where: me · 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 (me), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	flat
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		me		tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	me not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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