Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 75
But she put the poisonous flower in her bosom, not knowing whether she might ever find any other memorial of Proserpina.
Who acts: child · What happens: put, not know, find, bosom · To what, where: poisonous flower, bosom, other memorial · 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 (child), 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 put | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 5 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flower | amod |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bosom | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knowing | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 knowing | advmod |
| 12 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 find | advmod |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knowing | ccomp |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 memorial | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 memorial | amod |
| 20 | memorial | memorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Proserpina | case |
| 22 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 memorial | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | child | the poisonous flower | child's bosom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in bosom=Destination | |||
| 2 | not know | gerund | child not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | find | might | child | any other memorial of Proserpina | ever | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memorial=Topic | |||
| 4 | bosom | child | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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