Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 25
If such be your pleasure, you shall first take some refreshment, and then join them in the elegant apartment which they now occupy.
Who acts: you, companions · What happens: be, take, join, occupy · To what, where: such pleasure, refreshment, companions, elegant apartment
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, companions), 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 | _ | 5 pleasure | mark |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pleasure | amod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleasure | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 refreshment | det |
| 12 | refreshment | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 join | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 join | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 join | advmod |
| 16 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 join | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 apartment | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 apartment | det |
| 20 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 apartment | amod |
| 21 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 join | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 occupy | obj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 occupy | nsubj |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 occupy | advmod |
| 25 | occupy | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 apartment | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | you not said here | your such pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | shall | you | some refreshment | first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refreshment=Theme | |||
| 3 | join | infinitive | you not said here | companions = companion | the elegant apartment | then | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||
| 4 | occupy | present | companions = companion | the elegant apartment | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer |
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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