Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 45

Of all the child's outcries, this last shriek was the only one that reached the ears of Mother Ceres.

Who acts: last shriek, only one · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: only one, ears

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 (last shriek, only one), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	6 outcries	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 child	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 outcries	compound
5	's	's	PART	_	4 child	case
6	outcries	outcry	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 outcries	punct
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 shriek	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shriek	amod
10	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 one	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 one	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 reached	nsubj
16	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 one	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ears	det
18	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 reached	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Ceres	case
20	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Ceres	compound
21	Ceres	Cere	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 ears	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this last shriek	the only one				of child outcries	tree rules
2	reach	past	the only one	the ears of Mother Ceres					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=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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