Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 88
"I don't care for golden palaces and thrones," sobbed Proserpina. "
Who acts: atom · What happens: not care, sob · To what, where: Proserpina · 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 (atom), 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 | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 care | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 care | advmod |
| 5 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sobbed | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 palaces | case |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 palaces | amod |
| 8 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 care | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thrones | cc |
| 10 | thrones | throne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 palaces | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 13 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sobbed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sobbed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care in a quote | present · do-support | every atom of the gold and silver = atom | for golden palaces and thrones | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sob | past | Proserpina | tree rules |
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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