Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 51
And while they settle their business together, we must inquire what Proserpina had been doing ever since we saw her last.
Who acts: cap, we, Proserpina · What happens: settle, inquire, do, see · To what, where: business, last · 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 (cap, we, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 inquire | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 settle | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 settle | nsubj |
| 4 | settle | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 inquire | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 business | nmod:poss |
| 6 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 settle | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 settle | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 settle | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 inquire | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 inquire | aux |
| 11 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 doing | obj |
| 13 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 doing | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 doing | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 doing | aux |
| 16 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 inquire | ccomp |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 doing | advmod |
| 18 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 20 saw | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 doing | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 last | nmod:poss |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | present | cap | cap's business | together property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme business=Location | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | must | we | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · progressive | Proserpina | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | see | past | we | Proserpina's last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer last=Stimulus |
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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