Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 93

When Pluto heard this, he began to see that he had mistaken the best method of tempting Proserpina to eat.

Who acts: Pluto, best method · What happens: hear, begin, see, mistake, tempt, eat · To what, where: this, best method, 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 (Pluto, best method), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 mistaken	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mistaken	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mistaken	aux
13	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 see	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 method	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 method	amod
16	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mistaken	obj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 tempting	mark
18	tempting	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 method	acl
19	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 tempting	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tempting	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hear	past	Pluto	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	begin	past	Pluto			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	see	to-infinitive	Pluto not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	mistake	past · perfect	Pluto	the best method		tree rules
5	tempt	gerund	the best method not said here		Proserpina	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proserpina=Recipient
6	eat	to-infinitive	the best method not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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