Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 107

But, when thou hast laid thy mother in the earth, then go, my son, to Delphi, and inquire of the oracle what thou shalt do next."

Who acts: you, thou · What happens: lay, go, inquire, do · To what, where: thou, earth, Delphi, oracle

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 laid	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 laid	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 laid	mark
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 laid	nsubj
5	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	aux:pass
6	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 go	advcl
7	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 go	advmod
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 son	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	vocative
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Delphi	punct
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Delphi	case
20	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 inquire	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 inquire	cc
23	inquire	inquire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 oracle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 oracle	det
26	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 inquire	obl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 do	obj
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 do	nsubj
29	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 oracle	acl:relcl
31	next	next	ADV	_	30 do	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present · passive		thou	the earth			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mother=Destination
2	go	imperative	you not said here		Delphi	then	my son vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to delphi=Initial_Location
3	inquire speech: other	infinitive	you not said here				of the oracle	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of oracle=Recipient
4	do	shall	thou	the oracle			next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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