Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 96

But neither could Pan tell her what had become of Proserpina, any better than the rest of these wild people.

Who acts: Pan · What happens: tell, become · To what, where: child · 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 (Pan), 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	_	5 tell	cc
2	neither	neither	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 become	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 become	aux
9	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tell	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Proserpina	case
11	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 become	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
13	any	any	ADV	_	14 better	advmod
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 tell	parataxis
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 rest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rest	det
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 better	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 people	det
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rest	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	Pan		child			neither property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	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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