Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 18
"You kill me by saying so," cried Ceres, almost ready to faint. "
Who acts: You, Ceres · What happens: kill, say, cry, faint · To what, where: 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 (You, 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 | _ | 3 kill | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 saying | mark |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 kill | advcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 saying | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saying | conj |
| 11 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ready | punct |
| 13 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 14 ready | advmod |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cried | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 faint | mark |
| 16 | faint | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ready | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present | You | Ceres | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | You not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Ceres | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | faint | to-infinitive | Ceres not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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