Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 67
If you desert us, and go to the enchanted palace, you will suffer the same fate as our poor companions, and not a soul of us will ever see our dear Ithaca again."
Who acts: you, soul · What happens: desert, go, enchant, suffer, see · To what, where: us, enchanted palace, same fate, dear Ithaca
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, soul), 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 desert | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 desert | nsubj |
| 3 | desert | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 suffer | advcl |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 desert | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 desert | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 10 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 palace | amod |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 desert | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 suffer | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 suffer | aux |
| 15 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fate | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fate | amod |
| 18 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suffer | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 companions | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 companions | nmod:poss |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 companions | amod |
| 22 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 suffer | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 see | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 soul | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 soul | det |
| 27 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 us | case |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 soul | nmod |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 see | aux |
| 31 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 see | advmod |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 suffer | conj |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 Ithaca | nmod:poss |
| 34 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Ithaca | amod |
| 35 | Ithaca | Ithaca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 see | obj |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 see | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 suffer | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desert a condition, not said to happen | present | you | us | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme we=Source | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | the enchanted palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | suffer | future | you | the same fate | as our poor companions | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | see | future | a soul of us | our dear Ithaca | ever; again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ithaca=Stimulus |
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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