Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 82

As long as Proserpina was above ground, there might have been hopes of regaining her.

Who acts: Proserpina, hopes · What happens: be, regain · To what, where: hopes, Proserpina

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, hopes), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 regaining	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 ground	case
4	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ground	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ground	cop
6	above	above	ADP	_	7 ground	case
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 long	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 regaining	expl
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 regaining	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 hopes	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 hopes	cop
13	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 regaining	nsubj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 regaining	mark
15	regaining	regain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 regaining	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 regaining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Proserpina			as ground	tree rules
2	is a	infinitive · perfect		hopes			tree rules
3	regain	might	hopes	Proserpina	there	long property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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