Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 57

"O, where is my dear child?" cried Ceres, clasping her hands, and flinging herself at his feet.

Who acts: dear child · What happens: be, cry, clasp, fling · To what, where: dear child, Ceres, hands, Proserpina, feet · 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 (dear child), 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	_	11 cried	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	11 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 child	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 child	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 child	nmod:poss
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clasping	punct
14	clasping	clasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 clasping	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flinging	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flinging	cc
19	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 clasping	conj
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 flinging	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 flinging	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		my dear child		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	my dear child	Ceres		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceres=Topic
3	clasp	gerund	my dear child not said here	Proserpina's hands		vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	fling	gerund	my dear child not said here	Proserpina	child's feet	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination

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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