Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 77
Otherwise you must die upon the spot."
Who acts: you · What happens: die
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 | Otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 4 die | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 spot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spot | det |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 die | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | must | you | upon the spot; otherwise property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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