Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 60
Proserpina has been at play with us, it is true; but she left us a long while ago, meaning only to run a little way upon the dry land, and gather some flowers for a wreath.
Who acts: Proserpina, play, mother · What happens: be, leave, mean, run, gather · To what, where: play, us, little way, dry land, flowers
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, play, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1572): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 play | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 play | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 play | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 play | case |
| 5 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 play | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 true | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 true | cop |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 play | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 play | conj |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 left | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 while | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 while | amod |
| 19 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 left | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meaning | punct |
| 22 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 left | advcl |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 meaning | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 run | mark |
| 25 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 meaning | xcomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 way | amod |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 run | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 land | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 land | det |
| 31 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 land | amod |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 run | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 gather | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 gather | cc |
| 35 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 run | conj |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 flowers | det |
| 37 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 gather | obj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 wreath | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 wreath | det |
| 40 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gather | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | Proserpina | play | with us | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | play | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | mother | us | ago property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 4 | mean | gerund | mother not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | run not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | a little way | the dry land | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon land=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | gather | infinitive | mother not said here | some flowers | for a wreath | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for wreath=Beneficiary |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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