Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 16
"It suits my taste, however," answered Pluto, who was apt to be sullen when anybody disagreed with him. "
Who acts: Lethe, Pluto, anybody, my · What happens: suit, answer, be, disagree, taste · To what, where: taste · 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 (Lethe, Pluto, anybody, my), 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 | _ | 3 suits | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suits | nsubj |
| 3 | suits | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 taste | nmod:poss |
| 5 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suits | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 answered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suits | parataxis |
| 11 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 apt | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 apt | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 apt | cop |
| 15 | apt | apt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Pluto | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sullen | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sullen | cop |
| 18 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 apt | csubj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 disagreed | advmod |
| 20 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 disagreed | nsubj |
| 21 | disagreed | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sullen | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 disagreed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suits | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit in a quote | present | Lethe | my taste | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Pluto | however property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Pluto | apt property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | sullen property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | disagree | past | anybody | with Proserpina | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | taste in a quote | my | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=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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