Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 82
It was not merely of human beings that she asked tidings of her daughter.
Who acts: torch, child · What happens: not be, ask · To what, where: human beings
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 (torch, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beings | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beings | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 beings | advmod |
| 4 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 7 beings | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beings | case |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beings | amod |
| 7 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 asked | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beings | acl:relcl |
| 11 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tidings | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 beings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | torch | of human beings; merely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | child | human beings | tree rules |
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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