Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 1
"Will the dog bite me?" asked Proserpina, shrinking closer to Pluto. "
Who acts: dog · What happens: bite, ask, shrink · To what, where: dog, Proserpina · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 bite | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bite | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bite | nsubj |
| 5 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bite | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bite | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bite | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bite | conj |
| 10 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shrinking | punct |
| 12 | shrinking | shrink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 13 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 shrinking | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Pluto | case |
| 15 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 closer | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bite | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite in a quote | future | the dog | the dog = dog | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the dog not said here | Proserpina | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent proserpina=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | shrink | gerund | the dog not said here | close property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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