Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 13

Tell me, for pity's sake, have you seen my poor child Proserpina pass by the mouth of your cavern?"

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, see, pass · To what, where: me, poor child · 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 (you), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 sake	case
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sake	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 pity	case
7	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seen	punct
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 seen	nsubj
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 pass	advcl
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 child	nmod:poss
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 child	amod
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obj
15	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 child	appos
16	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mouth	det
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pass	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 cavern	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cavern	nmod:poss
22	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mouth	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me	for pity's sake	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	see	present · perfect	you	my poor child			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
3	pass	present				by the mouth of your cavern	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mouth=Location

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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