Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 83
"I love you a little," whispered she, looking up in his face.
Who acts: I · What happens: love, whisper, look up · To what, where: you, Proserpina · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 love | nsubj |
| 3 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 love | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 love | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispered | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispered | punct |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 love | parataxis |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whispered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 whispered | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 looking | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | present | I | you | a little obl:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Proserpina | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look up | gerund | in King's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=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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