Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 37

You are a spoiled child, I perceive, my little Proserpina; but when you see the nice things which my cook will make for you, your appetite will quickly come again."

Who acts: You, I, cook, appetite · What happens: be, perceive, see, make, come · To what, where: spoiled child, little Proserpina, nice things

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 (You, I, cook, appetite), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 child	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 child	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	spoiled	spoiled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 perceive	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 perceive	nsubj
8	perceive	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 child	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Proserpina	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Proserpina	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Proserpina	amod
12	Proserpina	proserpina	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perceive	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 come	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 see	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 come	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 things	det
19	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 make	obj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cook	nmod:poss
23	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 things	acl:relcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 make	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 appetite	nmod:poss
30	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
32	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	33 come	advmod
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 child	parataxis
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 come	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	a spoiled child			tree rules
2	perceive	present	I	my little Proserpina			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	present	you	the nice things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	make	future	my cook	the nice things		for you	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Product for you=Beneficiary
5	come	future	your appetite		again	quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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