Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 87

Never ascend these steps again without the child!"

Who acts: you · What happens: not ascend · To what, where: steps

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), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 ascend	advmod
2	ascend	ascend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 steps	det
4	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ascend	obj
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 ascend	advmod
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ascend	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 ascend	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 ascend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ascend	imperative	you not said here	this steps			again	without the child	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory

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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