Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 51
Proserpina, did you call her name?" answered Phoebus, endeavoring to recollect; for there was such a continual flow of pleasant ideas in his mind, that he was apt to forget what had happened no longer ago than yesterday. "
Who acts: you, Phoebus, Proserpina · What happens: call, answer, endeavor, recollect, be, forget · To what, where: name, mind, Phoebus, continual flow · 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, Phoebus, Proserpina), 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 | Proserpina | proserpina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Proserpina | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | parataxis |
| 11 | Phoebus | Phoebus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 endeavoring | punct |
| 13 | endeavoring | endeavor | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 answered | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 recollect | mark |
| 15 | recollect | recollect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 endeavoring | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 flow | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 was | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 flow | cop |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 flow | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 flow | det |
| 22 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 flow | amod |
| 23 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ideas | case |
| 25 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ideas | amod |
| 26 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flow | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 mind | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mind | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 apt | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 apt | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 apt | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 apt | cop |
| 34 | apt | apt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 call | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 forget | mark |
| 36 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 apt | csubj |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 happened | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 happened | aux |
| 39 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 forget | ccomp |
| 40 | no | no | ADV | _ | 41 longer | advmod |
| 41 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 42 ago | advmod |
| 42 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 39 happened | advmod |
| 43 | than | than | ADP | _ | 44 yesterday | case |
| 44 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ago | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past · do-support | you | Proserpina's name | Phoebus's mind | Proserpina vocative | tree rules | ||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Phoebus | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phoebus=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | endeavor in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | recollect in a quote | to-infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | such continual flow | of pleasant ideas | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | Phoebus | apt property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | forget in a quote | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | happen in a quote | past · perfect | ago property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | name | Proserpina | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | mind in a quote | Phoebus | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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