Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 39
"You have promised to be my companion," answered Ceres. "
Who acts: You, Ceres · What happens: promise, be, answer · To what, where: companion · 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 | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | aux |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 answered | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 companion | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 companion | cop |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 companion | nmod:poss |
| 8 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present · perfect | You | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | my companion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Ceres | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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