Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 8

"I was a mother once," Ceres always replied; "and having nursed my own child, I know what other children need."

Who acts: Ceres, other children · What happens: be, reply, nurse, know, need · To what, where: mother, own 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 (Ceres, other children), 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 mother	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 mother	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mother	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 mother	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
9	Ceres	Cere	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 replied	nsubj
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 replied	advmod
11	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mother	parataxis
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 nursed	cc
15	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 nursed	aux
16	nursed	nurse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 replied	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 child	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 child	amod
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nursed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
22	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mother	parataxis
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 need	obj
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 children	amod
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 need	nsubj
26	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 know	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Ceres = cere	a mother		once property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	participle	Ceres			always property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	nurse in a quote	gerund · perfect	Ceres not said here		my own child		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary
4	know in a quote	present	Ceres = cere				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	need in a quote	present	other children				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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