Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 62
Proserpina's sense of beauty will be duly gratified, and even in spite of the lack of sunshine, she will lead a very enviable life."
Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: gratify, lead, sense, spite, lack · To what, where: sense, spite, enviable life, beauty, lack, sunshine
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 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sense | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Proserpina | case |
| 3 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gratified | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 beauty | case |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sense | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 gratified | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gratified | aux:pass |
| 8 | duly | duly | ADV | _ | 9 gratified | advmod |
| 9 | gratified | gratify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spite | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spite | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 spite | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 spite | case |
| 14 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gratified | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lack | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lack | det |
| 17 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spite | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sunshine | case |
| 19 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lack | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lead | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lead | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 lead | aux |
| 23 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gratified | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 life | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 enviable | advmod |
| 26 | enviable | enviable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 life | amod |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lead | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 lead | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gratify | future · passive | Proserpina's sense of beauty | spite of the lack of sunshine | duly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | lead | future | Proserpina | a enviable life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sense | Proserpina | beauty | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 4 | spite | the lack of sunshine | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | lack | sunshine | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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