Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 97
You must make a grave here, and lay your mother's weary frame into it.
Who acts: You · What happens: make, lay · To what, where: grave, weary frame, frame
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 grave | det |
| 5 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 make | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frame | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 13 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 frame | amod |
| 14 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must | You | a grave | here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Product | |||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | You not said here | your mother's weary frame | frame | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frame=Result |
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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