Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 72
"No, no," answered Pluto, with his gloomy smile, "I will not trust you for that.
Who acts: Pluto · What happens: answer, not trust, smile · To what, where: you · 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smile | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 smile | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 smile | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 smile | amod |
| 13 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trust | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 trust | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 trust | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 trust | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 trust | advmod |
| 19 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 smile | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 trust | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 trust | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Pluto | with Pluto's gloomy smile | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not trust in a quote | future | Pluto | you | for that | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme for that=Recipient | |||
| 3 | smile | Pluto | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=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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