Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 55

"Where is Proserpina?" cried Ceres. "

Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: Ceres · 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	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
4	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Proserpina	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Proserpina	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	advcl:relcl
8	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						where property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Proserpina	Ceres					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceres=Topic

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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