Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 63

"Do not speak so harshly of poor King Pluto," said Prosperina, kissing her mother. "

Who acts: Prosperina · What happens: not speak, say, kiss · To what, where: mother · 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 (Prosperina), 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	_	4 speak	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 harshly	advmod
6	harshly	harshly	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Pluto	case
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Pluto	amod
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Pluto	nmod:desc
10	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 harshly	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Prosperina	Prosperina	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kissing	punct
16	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kissing	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive · do-support			harshly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Prosperina			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	kiss	gerund	Prosperina not said here	Prosperina's mother		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Co-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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