Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 104
But do as I bid you; and the matter may end better than it has begun."
Who acts: I, matter · What happens: bid, end, begin · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (I, matter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 bid | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bid | aux |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 bid | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bid | nsubj |
| 5 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bid | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 end | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 end | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 matter | det |
| 10 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 end | aux |
| 12 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bid | parataxis |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 end | xcomp |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 begun | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 begun | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 begun | aux |
| 17 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 better | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 end | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | present · do-support | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end | may | the matter | good property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | begin | present · perfect | matter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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