Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 12
At the first noise of their entrance, Proserpina withdrew the pomegranate from her mouth.
Who acts: Proserpina, entrance · What happens: withdraw, noise · To what, where: pomegranate, first noise
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, entrance), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 noise | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 noise | amod |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 withdrew | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 entrance | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 entrance | nmod:poss |
| 7 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noise | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 noise | punct |
| 9 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 withdrew | nsubj |
| 10 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pomegranate | det |
| 12 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 withdrew | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 mouth | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 withdrew | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past | Proserpina | the pomegranate | the first noise of teeth's entrance | from Proserpina's mouth | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent pomegranate=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | noise | teeth's entrance | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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