Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 46
"Does the earth disobey me?" exclaimed Mother Ceres, indignantly. "
Who acts: earth, Mother Ceres · What happens: disobey, exclaim · To what, where: Mother Ceres · 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 (earth, Mother Ceres), 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 disobey | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 disobey | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 earth | det |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disobey | nsubj |
| 5 | disobey | disobey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 disobey | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 disobey | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 disobey | punct |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ceres | compound |
| 11 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 indignantly | punct |
| 13 | indignantly | indignantly | ADV | _ | 9 exclaimed | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disobey in a quote | present · do-support | the earth | Mother Ceres = ceres | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Mother Ceres | indignantly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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