Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 18

I hoped you would take my crown for a plaything, and me--ah, you laugh, naughty Proserpina--me, grim as I am, for a playmate.

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: hope, take, laugh, be, crown · To what, where: me, crown · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, you, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hoped	nsubj
2	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hoped	ccomp
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 crown	nmod:poss
7	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 plaything	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 plaything	det
10	plaything	plaything	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 me	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 me	cc
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hoped	obl
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 laugh	punct
15	ah	ah	INTJ	_	18 laugh	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laugh	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 laugh	nsubj
18	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hoped	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Proserpina	punct
20	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Proserpina	amod
21	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 laugh	parataxis
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 me	punct
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hoped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grim	punct
25	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hoped	conj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 playmate	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 playmate	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 playmate	cop
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 playmate	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 playmate	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 playmate	det
32	playmate	playmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grim	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hope	past	I	me	me obl	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take	would	you	my crown	for a plaything	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent crown=Theme for plaything=Beneficiary
3	laugh	present	you			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I		for a playmate	tree rules
5	crown		my			nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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