Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 110
Then she kissed the child, and it seemed to do him good; for he smiled and nestled closely into her bosom.
Who acts: Mother, it, child · What happens: kiss, seem, do, smile, nestle, bosom · To what, where: child, bosom
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, it, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 smiled | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 smiled | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 smiled | nsubj |
| 17 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 nestled | cc |
| 19 | nestled | nestle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 smiled | conj |
| 20 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 19 nestled | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 bosom | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nestled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Mother | the child | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | child | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | smile | past | child | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | nestle | past | child not said here | Mother's bosom | closely property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | 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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