Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 79

But nobody had seen Proserpina, nor could give Mother Ceres the least hint which way to seek her.

Who acts: nobody · What happens: see, give, seek · To what, where: Proserpina, least hint, Mother Ceres, child

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	_	4 seen	cc
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 seen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 give	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	parataxis
10	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ceres	compound
11	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hint	det
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 hint	amod
14	hint	hint	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
15	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obl:unmarked
17	to	to	PART	_	18 seek	mark
18	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 way	acl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seek	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	nobody	Proserpina			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer proserpina=Stimulus
2	give	could		the least hint	Mother Ceres	which way obl:unmarked	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ceres=Recipient hint=Theme
3	seek	to-infinitive		child			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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