Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 11

Pluto stopped the chariot, and bade Proserpina look at the stream which was gliding so lazily beneath it.

Who acts: Pluto, bade, stream · What happens: stop, look, glide · To what, where: chariot, bade

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 (Pluto, bade, stream), 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	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chariot	det
4	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 look	cc
7	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	nsubj
8	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bade	appos
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 stream	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stream	det
12	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	obl
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 gliding	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gliding	aux
15	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stream	acl:relcl
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 lazily	advmod
17	lazily	lazily	ADV	_	15 gliding	advmod
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gliding	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Pluto	the chariot			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector chariot=Eventuality
2	look	present	bade			at the stream	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stream=Theme
3	glide	past · progressive	the stream		bade	lazily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath it=Trajectory

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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