Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 49

And Proserpina came running, and flung herself upon her mother's bosom.

Who acts: Proserpina, mother · What happens: come, run, fling, bosom · To what, where: Proserpina, bosom

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, mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 came	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flung	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flung	cc
7	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 flung	obj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 bosom	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bosom	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mother	case
13	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flung	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	Proserpina			tree rules
2	run	gerund	Proserpina not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fling	past	Proserpina not said here	Proserpina	Proserpina's mother's bosom	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon bosom=Destination
4	bosom		Proserpina's mother			nom bosom «state 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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