Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 28

He alighted from the chariot, and taking Proserpina in his arms, carried her up a lofty flight of steps into the great hall of the palace.

Who acts: stroke, taking · What happens: alight, take, carry up · To what, where: chariot, Proserpina, arms, Pluto, great hall

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 (stroke, taking), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 alighted	nsubj
2	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 chariot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chariot	det
5	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alighted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carried	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 carried	cc
8	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 carried	csubj
9	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct
14	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 alighted	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carried	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 carried	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 flight	det
18	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flight	amod
19	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carried	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 steps	case
21	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 flight	nmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 hall	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hall	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hall	amod
25	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carried	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 palace	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 palace	det
28	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hall	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 alighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	alight	participle	stroke			the chariot	tree rules
2	take	gerund		Proserpina		stroke's arms	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent proserpina=Value in arm=Location
3	carry up	past	taking		Pluto	the great hall of the palace	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary flight=Value

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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