Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 8

So she took up the pomegranate, and applied it to her nose; and, somehow or other, being in such close neighborhood to her mouth, the fruit found its way into that little red cave.

Who acts: Proserpina, fruit · What happens: take up, apply, be, find · To what, where: pomegranate, such close neighborhood, way, little red cave

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, fruit), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pomegranate	det
6	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 applied	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 applied	cc
9	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 applied	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 nose	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nose	nmod:poss
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 applied	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 somehow	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 somehow	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 somehow	punct
17	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 other	cc
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 somehow	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 neighborhood	punct
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 neighborhood	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 neighborhood	case
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 neighborhood	amod
24	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 neighborhood	amod
25	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 mouth	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mouth	nmod:poss
28	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 neighborhood	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fruit	det
31	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 way	nmod:poss
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	39 cave	case
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 cave	nsubj
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cave	amod
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cave	amod
39	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take up	past	Proserpina	the pomegranate		somehow property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomegranate=Theme
2	apply	past	Proserpina not said here	pomegranate		to Proserpina's nose	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	gerund			such close neighborhood	to Proserpina's mouth	tree rules
4	find	past	the fruit	fruit's way	little red cave		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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