Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 72

"Never shall you see my face again," he cried, "unless you bring me back my little Europa, to gladden me with her smiles and her pretty ways.

Who acts: you, face, Europa · What happens: not see, cry, bring back, gladden, smile · To what, where: face, little Europa · 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, face, Europa), 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	_	5 see	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 see	advmod
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bring	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 bring	punct
15	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	17 bring	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 bring	nsubj
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bring	obj
19	back	back	ADP	_	17 bring	compound:prt
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Europa	nmod:poss
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Europa	amod
22	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gladden	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 gladden	mark
25	gladden	gladden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 bring	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 gladden	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 smiles	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 smiles	nmod:poss
29	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gladden	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ways	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ways	nmod:poss
32	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ways	amod
33	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 smiles	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not see in a quote	shall	you	my face		again		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	face					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	you	my little Europa	face			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination europa=Theme
4	gladden in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	face			with Europa's smiles and Europa's pretty ways	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with smile=Instrument
5	smile in a quote		Europa					nom smile «communication 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.

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