Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 34
"I will neither drink that nor anything else," said Proserpina. "
Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: drink, say · 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 (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 drink | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 drink | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 drink | aux |
| 4 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 drink | advmod |
| 5 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 said | mark |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 anything | cc |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 said | nsubj |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 anything | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 anything | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 anything | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drink | advcl |
| 13 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drink | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink in a quote | future | Proserpina | neither property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Proserpina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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