Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 91
She roamed about in so wild a way, and with her hair so disheveled, that people took her for some distracted creature, and never dreamed that this was Mother Ceres, who had the oversight of every seed which the husbandman planted.
Who acts: Ceres, people, Mother, seed · What happens: roam, dishevel, take, distract, not dream, be · To what, where: wild way, Ceres, Mother, oversight, husbandman · 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, people, Mother, seed), 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 roamed | nsubj |
| 2 | roamed | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 roamed | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 wild | advmod |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roamed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 disheveled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 disheveled | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hair | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disheveled | obl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 disheveled | advmod |
| 15 | disheveled | dishevel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 roamed | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 took | mark |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 disheveled | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 creature | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 creature | det |
| 23 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 creature | amod |
| 24 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dreamed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dreamed | cc |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 dreamed | advmod |
| 28 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 had | mark |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 Mother | det |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Mother | cop |
| 32 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 had | nsubj |
| 33 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Mother | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 had | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 dreamed | ccomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 oversight | det |
| 38 | oversight | oversight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 had | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 seed | case |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 seed | det |
| 41 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 oversight | nmod |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 husbandman | nsubj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 husbandman | det |
| 44 | husbandman | husbandman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 seed | conj |
| 45 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 husbandman | acl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 roamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | past | Ceres | a wild way | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | dishevel | past | with Ceres's hair | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hair=Instrument | |||||
| 3 | take | past | people | Ceres | for some distracted creature | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for creature=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | distract | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not dream | past | people not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | this Mother | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | have | past | this Mother | the oversight of every seed and the husbandman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oversight=Patient | ||||
| 8 | husbandman | every seed and the husbandman | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | plant | participle | the husbandman not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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