Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 80
King Pluto gazed after her, and wished that he, too, was a child.
Who acts: King · What happens: gaze, wish, be · To what, where: child
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 (King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gazed | nsubj |
| 2 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gazed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wished | cc |
| 8 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gazed | conj |
| 9 | that | that | ADP | _ | 10 he | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wished | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 too | punct |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 wished | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 child | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 child | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wished | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | King | after Proserpina | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | King not said here | that King | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a child | tree rules |
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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