Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 38

"Come, dear child," was what he wanted to say, "let me give you a ride on my back."

Who acts: you, bull · What happens: come, be, want, say, let, give · To what, where: dear child, bull, ride, you, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bull), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	cop
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 Come	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ride	det
21	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 back	nmod:poss
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ride	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come in a quote	imperative	you not said here	dear child			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	you not said here				tree rules
3	want	past	bull				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	bull not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let in a quote	infinitive		bull			tree rules
6	give in a quote	infinitive	bull not said here	a ride	you	my back	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ride=Theme on back=Asset

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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