Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 96
"Never!" answered Proserpina, looking as miserable as she could. "
Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: not answer, look
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 (Proserpina), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 answered | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Never | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Never | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 answered | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 miserable | advmod |
| 10 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looking | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 could | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 could | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 miserable | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past | Proserpina | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Proserpina not said here | miserable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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