Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 46

As Ceres and her dismal companion approached him, Phoebus smiled on them so cheerfully that Hecate's wreath of snakes gave a spiteful hiss, and Hecate heartily wished herself back in her cave.

Who acts: Ceres, Phoebus, wreath, Hecate · What happens: approach, smile, give, wish back · To what, where: man, spiteful hiss, Hecate, cave

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 (Ceres, Phoebus, wreath, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	7 approached	mark
2	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 approached	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 companion	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 companion	nmod:poss
5	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 companion	amod
6	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ceres	conj
7	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 smiled	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 approached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 approached	punct
10	Phoebus	Phoebus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 smiled	nsubj
11	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 smiled	obl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 cheerfully	advmod
15	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	11 smiled	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 gave	mark
17	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 wreath	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Hecate	case
19	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 snakes	case
21	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wreath	nmod
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 smiled	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hiss	det
24	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hiss	amod
25	hiss	hiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wished	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wished	cc
28	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 wished	nsubj
29	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	30 wished	advmod
30	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 smiled	conj
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 wished	obj
32	back	back	ADV	_	30 wished	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 cave	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cave	nmod:poss
35	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wished	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	Ceres and Ceres's dismal companion	man			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	smile	past	Phoebus			on eyes = eye; cheerfully property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	Hecate's wreath of snakes	a spiteful hiss			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiss=Theme
4	wish back	past	Hecate	Hecate	Ceres's cave	heartily property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme

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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