Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 90

She cared not how she was dressed, nor had she ever thought of flinging away the wreath of withered poppies, which she put on the very morning of Proserpina's disappearance.

Who acts: Ceres, withered poppies, Proserpina · What happens: not care, dress, have, think, fling away, wither · To what, where: Ceres, wreath

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, withered poppies, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cared	nsubj
2	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 cared	advmod
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 dressed	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dressed	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dressed	aux:pass
7	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cared	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cared	conj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 thought	advmod
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	ccomp
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 flinging	mark
15	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 thought	advcl
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 flinging	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wreath	det
18	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flinging	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 poppies	case
20	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 poppies	amod
21	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wreath	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 put	nsubj:outer
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	nsubj
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 poppies	acl:relcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 morning	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 morning	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 morning	advmod
29	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 disappearance	case
31	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 disappearance	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Proserpina	case
33	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 morning	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not care	past	Ceres				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	dress	past · passive		Ceres			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	have	past	Ceres not said here				tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Ceres		ever		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fling away	gerund	Ceres not said here	the wreath of withered poppies		away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme
6	wither	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	put	past	withered poppies		morning		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	disappear		Proserpina				nom disappearance «act intransitive»: 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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