Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 68

"Ah," said Proserpina, "you should have tried to make me like you before carrying me off.

Who acts: Proserpina, you · What happens: say, try, make, carry off · To what, where: 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 (Proserpina, you), 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 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tried	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tried	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tried	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tried	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	aux
12	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 make	obl
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 carrying	mark
19	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 make	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 carrying	obj
21	off	off	ADP	_	19 carrying	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Proserpina			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	try in a quote	should · perfect	you			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Proserpina	like you	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
4	carry off in a quote	gerund	you not said here	Proserpina		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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