Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 21
She now turned to Mother Ceres, and asked her to explain the mystery.
Who acts: child · What happens: turn, ask, explain · To what, where: Mother, child, mystery
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 (child), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Mother | case |
| 5 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 6 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mother | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 explain | mark |
| 12 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mystery | det |
| 14 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 explain | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | child | Mother | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | child not said here | child | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | child not said here | the mystery | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=Topic |
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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