Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 77
O my sweet violets, shall I never see you again?"
Who acts: sweet violets · What happens: not see · To what, where: you
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 (sweet violets), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 9 see | discourse |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 violets | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 violets | amod |
| 4 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 see | advmod |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | shall | my sweet violets | you | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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