Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 9
But Queen Metanira, as was very natural, had a great curiosity to know precisely what the nurse did to her child.
Who acts: Metanira, nurse · What happens: be, have, know, do · To what, where: great curiosity · 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 (Metanira, nurse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Metanira | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Metanira | Metanira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 natural | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 natural | mark |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 natural | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 natural | advmod |
| 8 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Metanira | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Metanira | punct |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 curiosity | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 curiosity | amod |
| 13 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 curiosity | acl |
| 16 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 17 what | advmod |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 did | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nurse | det |
| 19 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 child | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 child | nmod:poss |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 did | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Metanira Queen not said here | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Metanira Queen | a great curiosity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | Metanira Queen not said here | a great curiosity not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | past | the nurse | to Metanira's child | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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