Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 92
"Pray do not be foolish, Proserpina," said he, in rather a sullen tone. "
Who acts: Pray · What happens: not be, say · 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 (Pray), 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 | _ | 6 foolish | punct |
| 2 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 foolish | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 foolish | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 foolish | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 foolish | cop |
| 6 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Proserpina | punct |
| 8 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 foolish | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 foolish | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 foolish | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tone | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tone | case |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 18 tone | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tone | det |
| 17 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tone | amod |
| 18 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 tone | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Pray | Proserpina obl; foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Pray | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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