Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 54

I am happy to tell you, my dear madam, that I did see the little Proserpina not many days ago.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, tell, see · To what, where: dear madam, you, little Proserpina · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 happy	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happy	cop
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happy	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 madam	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 madam	nmod:poss
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 madam	amod
10	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Proserpina	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Proserpina	amod
18	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 days	amod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ago	obl:unmarked
22	ago	ago	ADV	_	15 see	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			happy property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	my dear madam	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	see	past · do-support	I	the little Proserpina		ago property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer proserpina=Stimulus

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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