Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 102
"Will you trust the child entirely to me?" asked Ceres.
Who acts: Ceres · What happens: trust, ask · To what, where: child, me, Ceres · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ceres), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 trust | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 trust | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 trust | nsubj |
| 4 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trust | obj |
| 7 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 4 trust | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 trust | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 trust | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 trust | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust in a quote | future | Ceres | the child | me | entirely property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Theme to i=Recipient | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Ceres | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent ceres=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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