Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 7
"At least, I may smell it," thought Proserpina.
Who acts: Proserpina · What happens: smell, think · To what, where: fruit, least · 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 (Proserpina), 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 | _ | 7 smell | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 least | case |
| 3 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 smell | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 least | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 smell | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 smell | aux |
| 7 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 smell | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 smell | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell in a quote | may | Proserpina | fruit | least | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at least=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Proserpina | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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