Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 59
"Ah, unfortunate child, and miserable me!" exclaimed Ceres. "
Who acts: unfortunate child · What happens: exclaim · To what, where: Ceres
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 (unfortunate child), 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 child | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 child | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 miserable | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 miserable | cc |
| 8 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 miserable | nsubj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 miserable | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 miserable | punct |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | unfortunate child | Ceres | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ceres=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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