Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 64
"My own little Proserpina," he used to say. "
Who acts: Pluto · What happens: use, say · To what, where: own little Proserpina · 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 (Pluto), 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 Proserpina | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Proserpina | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Proserpina | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Proserpina | amod |
| 5 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 used | nsubj |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Proserpina | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Proserpina | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Proserpina | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Pluto | My own little Proserpina not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent proserpina=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Pluto not said here | 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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