Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 1

And thus Mother Ceres went wandering about for nine long days and nights, finding no trace of Proserpina, unless it were now and then a withered flower; and these she picked up and put in her bosom, because she fancied that they might have fallen from her poor child's hand.

Who acts: Mother, trace, they · What happens: go, wonder, find, wither, be, pick up · To what, where: these, trace, withered flower, bosom, hand

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, trace, they), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
3	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
4	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mother	flat
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 went	xcomp
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 wandering	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 days	case
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wandering	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nights	cc
13	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 days	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 finding	punct
15	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 trace	det
17	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 finding	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Proserpina	case
19	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 trace	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flower	punct
21	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	29 flower	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flower	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 flower	cop
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 flower	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flower	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 flower	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 flower	det
28	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 flower	amod
29	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 finding	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 these	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 these	cc
32	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 went	obl
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 picked	nsubj
34	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 these	acl:relcl
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 picked	compound:prt
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 put	cc
37	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 picked	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 bosom	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 bosom	nmod:poss
40	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 fancied	punct
42	because	because	SCONJ	_	44 fancied	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 fancied	nsubj
44	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 picked	conj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 fallen	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fallen	nsubj
47	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 fallen	aux
48	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 fallen	aux
49	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 fancied	advcl
50	from	from	ADP	_	55 hand	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 child	nmod:poss
52	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 child	amod
53	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 hand	nmod:poss
54	's	's	PART	_	53 child	case
55	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fallen	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Mother	these			thus property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Mother not said here			day	about property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	find	gerund	Mother not said here	no trace of Proserpina				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic
4	wither	participle						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	trace	a withered flower		now; then		tree rules
6	pick up	past	Mother					vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	put	participle	Mother not said here		Mother's bosom			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bosom=Destination
8	fancy	past	Mother					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
9	fall	might · perfect	they		Mother's poor child's hand			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location
10	bosom		Mother					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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