Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 85
Surely she is not in her right mind; and you ought to take her home, and make her comfortable, and do your best to get this dream out of her fancy."
Who acts: woman, you · What happens: not be, take, make, do, get, fancy · To what, where: right mind, home, best, dream, fancy
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 (woman, 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 8 mind | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mind | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 mind | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mind | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mind | amod |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 take | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 12 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mind | parataxis |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 make | cc |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 comfortable | nmod:poss |
| 21 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 do | cc |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 best | nmod:poss |
| 26 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 do | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 get | mark |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 do | advcl |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 dream | det |
| 30 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 fancy | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fancy | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 34 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | woman | woman's right mind | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | ought | you | woman's home | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | comfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | you not said here | your best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | this dream | woman's fancy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | fancy | woman | nom fancy «cognition 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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