Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 16
She then raked the ashes over him, and turned quietly away.
Who acts: Ceres · What happens: rake, turn · To what, where: ashes
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raked | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 raked | advmod |
| 3 | raked | rake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ashes | det |
| 5 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raked | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raked | conj |
| 11 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rake | past | Ceres | the ashes | then | over backlog | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ash=Theme over he=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | turn | past | Ceres not said here | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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