Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 6
Now, my pretty Proserpina, we will drive on."
Who acts: pretty Proserpina · What happens: drive
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 (pretty 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 drive | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Proserpina | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Proserpina | amod |
| 5 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 drive | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Proserpina | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 drive | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 drive | aux |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 drive | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drive | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | future | my pretty Proserpina | now | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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