Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 88

If your appetites tell you it is dinner time, then come with me to the festal saloon."

Who acts: appetites, stew, you · What happens: tell, be, come · To what, where: you, dinner time, festal saloon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (appetites, stew, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 tell	mark
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 appetites	nmod:poss
3	appetites	appetite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 come	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 time	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 time	cop
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	compound
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 come	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 saloon	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 saloon	det
17	festal	festal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 saloon	amod
18	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	your appetites		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	present	stew	dinner time					tree rules
3	come	imperative	you not said here			the festal saloon	then	with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to saloon=Initial_Location

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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