Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 88
If she goes a hundred miles farther, I am determined to see the end of it."
Who acts: animal, I · What happens: go, be, see · To what, where: end
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 (animal, I), 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 | _ | 3 goes | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 determined | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 miles | nummod |
| 6 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 farther | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 goes | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 determined | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 determined | cop |
| 11 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 determined | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 end | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 determined | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | animal | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | the end of end | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus |
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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