Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 4

Guard it as you do your eyesight; for I can assure you it is exceedingly rare and precious, and you might seek the whole earth over without ever finding another like it.

Who acts: Guard, I, flower, you · What happens: do, assure, be, seek, find · To what, where: eyesight, you, whole earth, another

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 (Guard, I, flower, 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	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Guard	appos
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 do	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 assure	parataxis
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyesight	nmod:poss
7	eyesight	eyesight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 assure	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 assure	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 assure	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 assure	aux
12	assure	assure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 assure	iobj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rare	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 rare	cop
16	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	17 rare	advmod
17	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 assure	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 precious	cc
19	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rare	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seek	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seek	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 seek	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 seek	aux
24	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 assure	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 earth	det
26	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 earth	amod
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seek	obj
28	over	over	ADV	_	24 seek	advmod
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 finding	mark
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 finding	advmod
31	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 seek	advcl
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 finding	obj
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 finding	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 assure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Guard	your eyesight				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyesight=Eventuality
2	assure	can	I		you			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is	present	flower				exceedingly, rare property	tree rules
4	be		flower not said here					tree rules
5	seek	might	you	the whole earth			over property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
6	find	gerund	you not said here	another		ever	like flower	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Topic

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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