Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 22

"Foolish woman," answered Ceres, "did you not promise to intrust this poor infant entirely to me?

Who acts: Foolish woman, Ceres · What happens: answer, not promise, intrust · To what, where: Ceres, Foolish woman · 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 (Foolish woman, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
2	Foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 promise	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 promise	punct
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 promise	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 promise	nsubj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 promise	advmod
13	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 intrust	mark
15	intrust	intrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 promise	xcomp
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 infant	nsubj
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 infant	amod
18	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 intrust	ccomp
19	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	21 me	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 intrust	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: ask	past	Foolish woman	Ceres	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ceres=Eventuality
2	not promise speech: promise in a quote	past · do-support	Ceres		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	intrust not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Ceres not said here	Foolish woman = woman	tree rules

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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