Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 10

Before Proserpina knew what she was about, her teeth had actually bitten it, of their own accord.

Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: know, be, bite · To what, where: teeth

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Proserpina), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 knew	mark
2	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bitten	advcl
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 knew	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 about	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 about	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	4 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 teeth	nmod:poss
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bitten	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bitten	aux
12	actually	actually	ADV	_	13 bitten	advmod
13	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bitten	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 accord	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 accord	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 accord	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 accord	amod
19	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bitten	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 bitten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Proserpina			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	is	past	Proserpina		about property	tree rules
3	bite	past · perfect · passive		Proserpina's teeth	actually property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient it=Result

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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