Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 81

And little Proserpina, when she turned about, and beheld this great king standing in his splendid hall, and looking so grand, and so melancholy, and so lonesome, was smitten with a kind of pity.

Who acts: little Proserpina, great king · What happens: turn about, behold, stand, look, smite · To what, where: great king, splendid hall, lonesome

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 (little Proserpina, great 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 turned	cc
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Proserpina	amod
3	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 turned	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 turned	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beheld	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beheld	cc
11	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 turned	conj
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 king	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 king	amod
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beheld	obj
15	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 king	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 hall	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hall	nmod:poss
18	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hall	amod
19	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 standing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looking	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looking	cc
22	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 standing	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 grand	advmod
24	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 looking	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 melancholy	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 melancholy	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 melancholy	advmod
28	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beheld	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 smitten	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 smitten	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	35 smitten	advmod
32	lonesome	lonesome	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 smitten	nsubj:pass
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lonesome	punct
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 smitten	aux:pass
35	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 turned	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 kind	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 kind	det
38	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 smitten	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 pity	case
40	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kind	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn about	past	little Proserpina			about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	behold	participle	little Proserpina not said here	this great king			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	this great king not said here		King's splendid hall		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
4	look	gerund	this great king not said here			grand property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	smite	past · passive		lonesome		with a kind of pity	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with kind=Instrument

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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