Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 58
"O, no, good Mother Ceres," said the innocent sea nymphs, tossing back their green ringlets, and looking her in the face. "
Who acts: Ceres · What happens: say, toss back, look · To what, where: innocent sea nymphs, green ringlets, mother, face · 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 (Ceres), 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 | _ | 7 Mother | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 Mother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 O | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 Mother | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mother | punct |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Mother | amod |
| 7 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | Ceres | Cere | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ceres | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ceres | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Mother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nymphs | det |
| 13 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nymphs | amod |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nymphs | compound |
| 15 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tossing | punct |
| 17 | tossing | toss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 tossing | advmod |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ringlets | nmod:poss |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ringlets | amod |
| 21 | ringlets | ringlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tossing | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looking | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looking | cc |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 tossing | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looking | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 face | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 face | det |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looking | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ceres | the innocent sea nymphs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nymph=Topic | ||||
| 2 | toss back | gerund | Ceres not said here | nymphs's green ringlets | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringlet=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Ceres not said here | mother | the face | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Attribute |
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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