Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 8

He drew Proserpina's attention to the rich veins of gold that were to be seen among the rocks, and pointed to several places where one stroke of a pickaxe would loosen a bushel of diamonds.

Who acts: King, one stroke, Proserpina · What happens: draw, see, point, loosen, attend, stroke · To what, where: attention, rich veins, gold, several places, bushel, pickaxe

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 (King, one stroke, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 attention	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Proserpina	case
5	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 veins	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 veins	det
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 veins	amod
9	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drew	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 veins	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seen	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	16 seen	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 seen	aux:pass
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 gold	acl:relcl
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 rocks	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rocks	det
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seen	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pointed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pointed	cc
22	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drew	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 places	case
24	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 places	amod
25	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pointed	obl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 loosen	advmod
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 stroke	nummod
28	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 loosen	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 pickaxe	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pickaxe	det
31	pickaxe	pickaxe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stroke	nmod
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 loosen	aux
33	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 places	acl:relcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bushel	det
35	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 loosen	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 diamonds	case
37	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 bushel	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	King	Proserpina's attention		the rich veins of gold		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to vein=Destination
2	see	past · passive	King not said here	gold			among the rocks	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	point	participle			several places			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to place=Recipient
4	loosen	would	one stroke of a pickaxe	a bushel of diamonds				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bushel=Patient
5	attend		Proserpina					nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
6	stroke			a pickaxe				nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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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