Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 3

When he was gone, Proserpina could not help coming close to the table, and looking at this poor specimen of dried fruit with a great deal of eagerness; for, to say the truth, on seeing something that suited her taste, she felt all the six months' appetite taking possession of her at once.

Who acts: servant, Proserpina · What happens: be, not help, come, look, dry, say · To what, where: truth, something, taste, appetite, possession, eagerness · 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 (servant, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 help	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 help	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 help	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 help	advmod
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 help	xcomp
11	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 coming	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 close	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looking	cc
17	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 coming	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 specimen	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 specimen	det
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 specimen	amod
21	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 fruit	case
23	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fruit	amod
24	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 specimen	nmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 deal	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 deal	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 deal	amod
28	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 eagerness	case
30	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 deal	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 say	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 say	mark
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 say	punct
34	to	to	PART	_	35 say	mark
35	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 help	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 truth	det
37	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 say	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 seeing	punct
39	on	on	SCONJ	_	40 seeing	mark
40	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 say	advcl
41	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 seeing	obj
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 suited	nsubj
43	suited	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 something	acl:relcl
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 taste	nmod:poss
45	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 suited	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 felt	punct
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 felt	nsubj
48	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 say	conj
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 appetite	det:predet
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 months	det
51	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 months	nummod
52	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 appetite	nmod:poss
53	'	's	PART	_	52 months	case
54	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 felt	obj
55	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 felt	advcl
56	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 taking	obj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 her	case
58	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 possession	nmod
59	at	at	ADP	_	60 once	case
60	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	55 taking	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	servant		gone property	tree rules
2	not help	could	Proserpina			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come not said to happen	gerund	Proserpina not said here		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	gerund	Proserpina not said here		with a great deal of eagerness; at this poor specimen of dried fruit	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at specimen=Theme
5	dry	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Proserpina not said here	the truth		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic
7	see	gerund	Proserpina not said here	something		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
8	suit	past		Proserpina's taste		tree rules
9	feel	past	Proserpina	the six months's appetite		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Theme
10	take	gerund	Proserpina not said here	possession of Proserpina		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent possession=Theme at once=Asset
11	deal			eagerness		nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient
12	taste		Proserpina			nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
13	possess			Proserpina		nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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