Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 76
But Ceres shook her head, and hastened away, along with Hecate.
Who acts: Ceres · What happens: shake, hasten away · To what, where: head, Hecate
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 shook | cc |
| 2 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hastened | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hastened | cc |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shook | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 hastened | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hecate | punct |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 Hecate | case |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Hecate | case |
| 13 | Hecate | Hecate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | Ceres | Ceres's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hasten away | participle | Ceres not said here | Hecate | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along hecate=Trajectory |
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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