Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 20
"Not so extremely silly," whispered Proserpina. "
Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: whisper
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 silly | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 silly | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 silly | advmod |
| 4 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 5 silly | advmod |
| 5 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispered | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispered | punct |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 silly | conj |
| 9 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 silly | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 silly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | Proserpina | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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