Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 40
Assume your proper shapes, gormandizers, and begone to the sty!"
Who acts: you · What happens: assume, begone · To what, where: proper shapes
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 (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 | Assume | assume | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shapes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shapes | amod |
| 4 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Assume | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gormandizers | punct |
| 6 | gormandizers | gormandizer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shapes | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 begone | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 begone | cc |
| 9 | begone | begone | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Assume | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sty | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sty | det |
| 12 | sty | sty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begone | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Assume | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Assume | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | imperative | you not said here | your proper shapes and gormandizers | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begone | infinitive | you not said here | to the sty | tree rules |
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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