Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 14
"No," answered Hecate, in a cracked voice, and sighing betwixt every word or two; "no, Mother Ceres, I have seen nothing of your daughter.
Who acts: Hecate · What happens: answer, crack, sigh, see · To what, where: Mother Ceres, cracked voice, betwixt word, nothing · 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), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Hecate | Hecate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 voice | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 voice | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 10 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 voice | amod |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sighing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sighing | cc |
| 14 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 answered | advcl |
| 15 | betwixt | betwixt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 word | amod |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sighing | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 two | cc |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 word | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ceres | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ceres | punct |
| 22 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 Ceres | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 no | punct |
| 24 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ceres | compound |
| 25 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seen | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 seen | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 seen | aux |
| 29 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Ceres | acl |
| 30 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 seen | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 daughter | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nothing | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Hecate | Mother Ceres | a cracked voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | crack | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sigh | gerund | Hecate not said here | every betwixt word | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Hecate | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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