--- title: Proserpina, did you call her name?" answered Phoebus, endeavoring to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Proserpina, did you call her name?" answered Phoebus, endeavoring to recollect; for there was such a continual flow of pleasant ideas in his mind, that he was apt to forget what had happened no longer ago than yesterday. " Who acts: you, Phoebus, Proserpina. 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" **Who acts:** you, Phoebus, Proserpina · **What happens:** call, answer, endeavor, recollect, be, forget · **To what, where:** name, mind, Phoebus, continual flow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Phoebus, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:22:51 # text = Proserpina, did you call her name?" answered Phoebus, endeavoring to recollect; for there was such a continual flow of pleasant ideas in his mind, that he was apt to forget what had happened no longer ago than yesterday. " 1 Proserpina proserpina NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 Phoebus Phoebus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 endeavoring endeavor VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 recollect recollect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 23 det:predet _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 continual continual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 flow flow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 apt apt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 csubj _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 nsubj _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 ccomp _ _ 40 no no ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 42 advmod _ _ 42 ago ago ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 43 than than ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | you | Proserpina's name | | Phoebus's mind | | Proserpina *vocative* | tree rules | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | | Phoebus | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phoebus=Eventuality | | 3 | **endeavor** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **recollect** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | | such continual flow | | | | of pleasant ideas | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Phoebus | | | | | apt *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **forget** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **happen** *in a quote* | past · perfect | | | | | | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **name** | | Proserpina | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **mind** *in a quote* | | Phoebus | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/52/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/)