Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 58

"Why," said Phoebus--and as he spoke he kept touching his lyre so as to make a thread of music run in and out among his words--"as the little damsel was gathering flowers (and she has really a very exquisite taste for flowers), she was suddenly snatched up by King Pluto, and carried off to his dominions.

Who acts: Phoebus, touching, thread, little damsel, Pluto · What happens: say, speak, keep, touch, make, run · To what, where: lyre, words, flowers, damsel, dominions · 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 (Phoebus, touching, thread, little damsel), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Phoebus	Phoebus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 spoke	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spoke	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 spoke	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spoke	nsubj
11	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 spoke	ccomp
14	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 make	csubj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lyre	nmod:poss
16	lyre	lyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touching	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 make	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 make	mark
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 kept	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thread	det
22	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 run	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 music	case
24	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thread	nmod
25	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 make	parataxis
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 run	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 out	cc
28	out	out	ADV	_	26 in	conj
29	among	among	ADP	_	31 words	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 words	nmod:poss
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 run	obl
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 gathering	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 damsel	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 damsel	amod
37	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 gathering	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 gathering	aux
39	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 kept	advcl
40	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 gathering	obj
41	(	(	PUNCT	_	57 snatched	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 has	cc
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 has	nsubj
44	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 snatched	aux
45	really	really	ADV	_	49 taste	advmod
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 taste	det
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 exquisite	advmod
48	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 taste	amod
49	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 has	obl
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 flowers	case
51	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 taste	nmod
52	)	)	PUNCT	_	49 taste	punct
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 snatched	punct
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 snatched	nsubj:pass
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 snatched	aux:pass
56	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	57 snatched	advmod
57	snatched	snatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 flowers	conj
58	up	up	ADP	_	57 snatched	compound:prt
59	by	by	ADP	_	61 Pluto	case
60	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 Pluto	nmod:desc
61	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 snatched	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 carried	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 carried	cc
64	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
65	off	off	ADP	_	64 carried	compound:prt
66	to	to	ADP	_	68 dominions	case
67	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 dominions	nmod:poss
68	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 carried	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Phoebus				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	past	Phoebus				tree rules
3	keep	past	Phoebus				tree rules
4	touch	gerund		Phoebus's lyre			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lyre=Co-Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	touching				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	run	present	a thread of music		Phoebus's words		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among word=Trajectory
7	gather in a quote	past · progressive	the little damsel	flowers			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
8	snatch up in a quote	present · passive	Pluto King	damsel		suddenly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
9	carry off in a quote	past	Phoebus not said here		Phoebus's dominions		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to dominion=Destination
10	word		Phoebus				nom word «communication 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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