Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 85
If my legs will let me, I'll never leave following the beast till she lies down."
Who acts: legs, I, cow · What happens: let, not leave, follow, lie down · To what, where: me, beast
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, I, cow), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 legs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leave | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 leave | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 leave | advmod |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 leave | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beast | det |
| 14 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 following | obj |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 lies | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lies | nsubj |
| 17 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leave | advcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 lies | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let a condition, not said to happen | future | my legs | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not leave | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | I not said here | the beast | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie down | present | cow | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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