Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 73
"Ah, Phoebus," said Ceres, with bitter meaning in her words, "you have a harp instead of a heart.
Who acts: Ceres, you · What happens: say, have, word · To what, where: harp · 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 (Ceres, you), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Phoebus | punct |
| 4 | Phoebus | phoebus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ah | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 meaning | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 meaning | case |
| 11 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 meaning | amod |
| 12 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 words | nmod:poss |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 meaning | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 harp | det |
| 21 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 25 heart | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 instead | fixed |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 heart | det |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ceres | with bitter meaning in Ceres's words | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with meaning=Manner | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | a harp | instead a heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Patient | |||
| 3 | word | Ceres | 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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