Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 59

If a hog, go join your fellow-swine in the sty; if a lion, a wolf, a tiger, go howl with the wild beasts on the lawn; if a fox, go exercise your craft in stealing poultry.

Who acts: you, lion, your · What happens: go, join, steal, craft · To what, where: fellow swine, sty, howl, exercise, poultry

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, lion, your), 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 hog	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hog	det
3	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hog	punct
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	xcomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 swine	nmod:poss
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swine	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 fellow	punct
10	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 join	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sty	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sty	det
13	sty	sty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 join	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 go	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lion	det
17	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wolf	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wolf	det
20	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lion	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tiger	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tiger	det
23	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lion	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lion	punct
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
26	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 beasts	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 beasts	det
29	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beasts	amod
30	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 go	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 lawn	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lawn	det
33	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beasts	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 go	punct
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 fox	mark
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 fox	det
37	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fox	punct
39	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 go	conj
40	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	obj
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 craft	nmod:poss
42	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	obj
43	in	in	SCONJ	_	44 stealing	mark
44	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 go	advcl
45	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stealing	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	join	infinitive	you not said here	your fellow swine	the sty		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swine=Patient
3	go a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	a lion and a wolf and a tiger	howl		with the wild beasts on the lawn	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location howl=Theme
4	go	infinitive	you not said here	exercise			tree rules
5	steal	gerund	you not said here	poultry			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location poultry=Theme
6	craft		your				nom craft «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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