Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 53

"My child," said she, "did you taste any food while you were in King Pluto's palace?"

Who acts: child, mother, you · What happens: say, taste, be · To what, where: food, palace · 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 (child, mother, 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 child	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 child	nmod:poss
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taste	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 she	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 taste	punct
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 taste	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 taste	nsubj
12	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 food	det
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taste	obj
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 palace	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 palace	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 palace	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 palace	case
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Pluto	nmod:desc
20	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 palace	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Pluto	case
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taste	advcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 taste	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 taste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	My child			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	taste in a quote	past · do-support	mother	any food		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme food=Attribute
3	is in a quote	past	you		Pluto King's palace	tree rules

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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