Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 82
She ran back to him, and, for the first time in all her life, put her small, soft hand in his.
Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: run back, put · To what, where: King, small soft hand
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 (Proserpina), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 life | det:predet |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hand | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 small | punct |
| 22 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hand | amod |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 his | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | past | Proserpina | King | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Proserpina not said here | Proserpina's small soft hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Asset his=Goal |
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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