Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 47
But, at the sound of Proserpina's shriek, she started, and looked about in every direction, not knowing whence it came, but feeling almost certain that it was her daughter's voice.
Who acts: sound, shriek, Proserpina · What happens: start, look, not know, come, feel, be · 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 (sound, shriek, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 started | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sound | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sound | det |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shriek | case |
| 7 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shriek | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Proserpina | case |
| 9 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 started | nsubj |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 started | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 direction | case |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 direction | case |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 direction | det |
| 19 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knowing | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 knowing | advmod |
| 22 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 looked | advcl |
| 23 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 came | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 knowing | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 feeling | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 feeling | cc |
| 28 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 started | conj |
| 29 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 30 certain | advmod |
| 30 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 feeling | xcomp |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 voice | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 daughter | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 daughter | cop |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 35 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 voice | compound |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 daughter | case |
| 37 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 certain | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the sound of Proserpina's shriek | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the sound of Proserpina's shriek not said here | about every direction | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about direction=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | the sound of Proserpina's shriek not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | past | shriek | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel | gerund | the sound of Proserpina's shriek not said here | certain property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | past | shriek | 's sound's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | shriek | Proserpina | nom shriek «communication 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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