Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 100
"I shall not touch it, I assure you," said she. "
Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: not touch, assure, say · To what, where: pomegranate, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 touch | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 touch | advmod |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 assure | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 assure | nsubj |
| 9 | assure | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 assure | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 assure | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 touch | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | advcl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touch | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch in a quote | shall | Proserpina | pomegranate | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | assure in a quote | present | Proserpina | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Proserpina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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