Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 84
"Do you, indeed, my dear child?" cried Pluto, bending his dark face down to kiss her; but Proserpina shrank away from the kiss, for, though his features were noble, they were very dusky and grim. "
Who acts: Pluto, Proserpina, features · What happens: do, cry, bend, kiss, shrink away, be · To what, where: you, dark face, 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 (Pluto, Proserpina, features), 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Do | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 Do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 child | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 child | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 child | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 child | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | parataxis |
| 13 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bending | punct |
| 15 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cried | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 face | amod |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bending | obj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 bending | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 kiss | mark |
| 21 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bending | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kiss | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 shrank | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 shrank | cc |
| 25 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shrank | nsubj |
| 26 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | parataxis |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 shrank | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 kiss | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kiss | det |
| 30 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shrank | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 noble | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 noble | mark |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 noble | punct |
| 34 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 38 noble | mark |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 features | nmod:poss |
| 36 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 noble | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 noble | cop |
| 38 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shrank | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 dusky | punct |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 dusky | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 dusky | cop |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 dusky | advmod |
| 43 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 noble | conj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 grim | cc |
| 45 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 dusky | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | you | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Pluto | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bend | gerund | Pluto not said here | Pluto's dark face | down property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent face=Material | |||
| 4 | kiss | to-infinitive | Pluto not said here | child | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | shrink away | past | Proserpina | from the kiss; away property | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from kiss=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Pluto's features | noble property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | features = feature | dusky property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | features = feature not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | feature | Pluto | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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