Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 59

But that would only delay you, and perhaps hinder you from finding dear little Europa, after all your pains and trouble.

Who acts: that, your · What happens: delay, hinder, find, pain · To what, where: you, dear little Europa

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 (that, your), 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	_	5 delay	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 delay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 delay	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 delay	advmod
5	delay	delay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 delay	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hinder	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hinder	cc
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	10 hinder	advmod
10	hinder	hinder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 delay	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hinder	obj
12	from	from	SCONJ	_	13 finding	mark
13	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 hinder	advcl
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Europa	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Europa	amod
16	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 finding	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pains	punct
18	after	after	ADP	_	21 pains	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 pains	det:predet
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pains	nmod:poss
21	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 finding	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 trouble	cc
23	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pains	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	delay	would	that	you			vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent you=Source
2	hinder	present	that not said here	you		perhaps property	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Eventuality
3	find	gerund	that not said here	dear little Europa	after your pains and trouble		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent europa=Topic
4	pain		your				nom pain «state 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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