Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 3

If he comes within my reach, I'll catch him, and give him to the palace cook to be roasted on a skewer."

Who acts: fowl, I · What happens: come, catch, give, roast · To what, where: fowl

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (fowl, 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 comes	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	advcl
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 reach	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 reach	nmod:poss
6	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 catch	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	aux
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 catch	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 catch	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 cook	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cook	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cook	compound
19	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 roasted	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 roasted	aux:pass
22	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 give	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 skewer	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 skewer	det
25	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roasted	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 catch	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	present	fowl			within my reach	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	future	I	fowl			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	give	infinitive	I not said here		fowl	to the palace cook	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cook=Recipient
4	roast	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here			on a skewer	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: on skewer=Instrument

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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