Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 52
When their hearts had grown a little more quiet, Mother Ceres looked anxiously at Proserpina.
Who acts: hearts, Mother · What happens: grow, look
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 (hearts, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 grown | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grown | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 looked | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 more | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 quiet | advmod |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grown | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 11 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mother | flat |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 13 looked | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Proserpina | case |
| 16 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | arms's hearts | quiet property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Mother | at Proserpina; anxiously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at proserpina=Theme |
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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