Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 7
Follow these directions, and you may defy her magic arts to change you into a fox."
Who acts: you · What happens: follow, defy, change · To what, where: directions, magic arts, you
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), 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 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 directions | det |
| 3 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Follow | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 defy | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 defy | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 defy | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 defy | aux |
| 8 | defy | defy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Follow | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 arts | amod |
| 11 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 defy | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 change | mark |
| 13 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 defy | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 change | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 fox | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 change | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | this directions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | defy | may | you | Guard's magic arts | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | into a fox result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient into fox=Result |
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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