Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 63

But nobody told her anything that would enable the poor mother to guess what had become of Proserpina.

Who acts: nobody · What happens: tell, enable, guess, become · To what, where: anything, mother, poor mother · 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 (nobody), 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	_	3 told	cc
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 told	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 enable	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 enable	aux
8	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 anything	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mother	amod
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enable	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 guess	mark
13	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 enable	csubj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 become	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 become	aux
16	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 guess	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Proserpina	case
18	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 become	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	nobody	anything	mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient anything=Topic
2	enable	would		the poor mother			tree rules
3	guess	to-infinitive					vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	become	past · perfect				of Proserpina	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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