Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 7
"Pray, nurse," the queen kept saying, "how is it that you make the child thrive so?"
Who acts: queen, Pray, you, child · What happens: keep, say, be, make, thrive · To what, where: Pray, nurse, child · 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 (queen, Pray, you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
| 2 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nurse | punct |
| 4 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pray | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 kept | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 it | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 it | cop |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | expl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | thrive | thrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 make | xcomp |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 thrive | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the queen | Pray and nurse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | gerund | Pray and nurse not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | nurse | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present | you | the child | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | thrive in a quote | infinitive | the child not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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