Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 6

If I thought the good lady would not take it amiss, I should call for a fat slice of fried bacon to begin with."

Who acts: I, good lady · What happens: think, not take, call, fry, begin, slice · To what, where: feast, fried bacon · Speech: someone speaks here

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, good lady), 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 thought	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 take	advmod
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	obj
11	amiss	amiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 take	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 call	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 call	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 call	aux
15	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 slice	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 slice	det
18	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 slice	amod
19	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 call	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 bacon	case
21	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 bacon	amod
22	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slice	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 begin	mark
24	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 call	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	24 begin	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not take	would	the good lady	feast		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme amiss=Destination
3	call	should	I		for a fat slice of fried bacon	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for slice=Recipient
4	fry	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	begin	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	slice			fried bacon		nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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