Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 70
Quarry some stones with those great swords of yours, and help me to build a city."
Who acts: you, me · What happens: quarry, help, build · To what, where: stones, me, city
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | Quarry | quarry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 stones | det |
| 3 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Quarry | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 swords | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 swords | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swords | amod |
| 7 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Quarry | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 yours | case |
| 9 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 swords | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 help | cc |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Quarry | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 build | mark |
| 15 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 help | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 build | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quarry | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quarry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarry | imperative | you not said here | some stones | with that great swords of yours | vn mine-10.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 2 | help | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | me not said here | a city | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product |
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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