Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 12
"O Hecate," said she, "if ever you lose a daughter, you will know what sorrow is.
Who acts: Hecate, you, sorrow · What happens: say, lose, know, be · To what, where: daughter · 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 (Hecate, you, sorrow), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | Hecate | Hecate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hecate | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hecate | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 lose | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 ever | mark |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 lose | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 lose | nsubj |
| 13 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lose | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lose | conj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 know | ccomp |
| 21 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 what | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | cop |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hecate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | present | you | a daughter | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | sorrow | 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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