Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 75
"Will not you stay a moment," asked Phoebus, "and hear me turn the pretty and touching story of Proserpina into extemporary verses?"
Who acts: you, Phoebus, Ceres · What happens: not stay, ask, hear, turn, touch · To what, where: Ceres, pretty, story, extemporary verses · 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 (you, Phoebus, Ceres), 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 stay | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | advcl |
| 11 | Phoebus | phoebus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hear | cc |
| 15 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hear | obj |
| 17 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hear | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pretty | det |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turn | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 touching | cc |
| 21 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 turn | conj |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 touching | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Proserpina | case |
| 24 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 story | nmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 verses | case |
| 26 | extemporary | extemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 verses | amod |
| 27 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 touching | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay in a quote | future | you | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Phoebus | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Ceres | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn in a quote | infinitive | Ceres not said here | the pretty | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pretty=Theme | ||||
| 5 | touch in a quote | gerund | Ceres not said here | story of Proserpina | extemporary verses | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Co-Theme |
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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