Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 93
There was nothing, now, in which Ceres seemed to feel an interest, unless when she saw children at play, or gathering flowers along the wayside.
Who acts: nothing, Ceres · What happens: be, seem, feel, see, gather · To what, where: interest, children, play, flowers
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 (nothing, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 now | punct |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 was | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 seemed | obl |
| 9 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 feel | mark |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 interest | det |
| 14 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feel | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 16 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 19 saw | mark |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seemed | conj |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 play | case |
| 22 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gathering | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 gathering | cc |
| 25 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 saw | advcl |
| 26 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gathering | obj |
| 27 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 wayside | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wayside | det |
| 29 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gathering | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | Ceres | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | feel | to-infinitive | Ceres not said here | a interest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen | past | Ceres | children | play | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | gather | gerund | Ceres not said here | flowers | along the wayside | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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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