Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 76
"Not half so pretty," said Proserpina, snatching the gems from Pluto's hand, and flinging them to the other end of the hall. "
Who acts: half · What happens: say, snatch, fling · To what, where: gems, hand, other end · 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 (half), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 half | advmod |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 pretty | advmod |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 3 half | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 half | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 half | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 snatching | punct |
| 11 | snatching | snatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gems | det |
| 13 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 snatching | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 15 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Pluto | case |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snatching | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flinging | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flinging | cc |
| 20 | flinging | fling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 snatching | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flinging | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 end | amod |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flinging | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hall | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hall | det |
| 28 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 end | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | half | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | snatch | gerund | half not said here | the gems | Pluto's hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gem=Theme from hand=Source | |||
| 3 | fling | gerund | half not said here | gems = gem | to the other end of the hall | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to end=Destination |
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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