Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 56

She is safe, and in excellent hands."

Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: be · To what, where: excellent hands

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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hands	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hands	cc
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hands	amod
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 safe	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 safe	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 safe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Proserpina			excellent hands		safe property	tree rules

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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