Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 48
"Then open your arms, dear mother," cried a well-known voice, "and take your little daughter into them."
Who acts: you · What happens: open, cry, know, take · To what, where: arms, known voice, little daughter · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 3 open | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 open | advmod |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 open | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mother | punct |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mother | amod |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arms | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 known | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 15 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | conj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 daughter | amod |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your arms and dear mother | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a known voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your little daughter | into arms = arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme into they=Destination |
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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