Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 32
"There is one person," she exclaimed, "who must have seen my poor child, and can doubtless tell what has become of her.
Who acts: one person, person · What happens: be, exclaim, see, tell, become · To what, where: one person, 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 (one person, person), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 person | nummod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 person | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 exclaimed | advcl |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 child | nmod:poss |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 child | amod |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 doubtless | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 doubtless | cc |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 doubtless | aux |
| 22 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seen | conj |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 doubtless | conj |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 become | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 become | aux |
| 26 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 tell | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 become | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | one person | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | person | one person not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent person=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | must · perfect | my poor child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | become in a quote | present · perfect | of person | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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