Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 99
As soon as Proserpina saw the pomegranate on the golden salver, she told the servant he had better take it away again.
Who acts: Proserpina, King · What happens: see, tell, have, take away · To what, where: pomegranate, golden salver, servant · 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 (Proserpina, King), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pomegranate | det |
| 7 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 salver | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 salver | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 salver | amod |
| 11 | salver | salver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 servant | det |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | ccomp |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 had | xcomp |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 told | ccomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 take | advmod |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 take | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Proserpina | the pomegranate | the golden salver | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pomegranate=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Proserpina | the servant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | King | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take away | infinitive | pomegranate | again | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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