Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 34
Deign to follow me, and you shall be treated as befits your rank."
Who acts: Deign · What happens: follow, treat, befit · To what, where: me, you, rank
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 (Deign), 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 | Deign | Deign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 follow | mark |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 treated | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 treated | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 treated | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 treated | aux:pass |
| 10 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 befits | mark |
| 12 | befits | befit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 treated | advcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 rank | nmod:poss |
| 14 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 befits | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | to-infinitive | Deign | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | treat | shall · passive | you | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | befit | present | your rank | 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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