Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 79

If I should lose you, too, as well as my little Europa, what would become of me!"

Who acts: I, little Europa · What happens: lose, become · To what, where: you

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 (I, little 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 lose	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lose	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lose	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 lose	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Europa	punct
9	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	14 Europa	cc
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 as	fixed
11	as	as	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Europa	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Europa	amod
14	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 become	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 become	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 become	aux
18	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Europa	acl:relcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 become	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	should	I	you				my little Europa obl	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
2	become	would	my little Europa					of me	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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