Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 92

Let them take their original shapes, therefore, Dame Circe, if your skill is equal to the task.

Who acts: you, comrades, skill · What happens: let, take, be · To what, where: comrades, original shapes

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, comrades, skill), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shapes	nmod:poss
5	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shapes	amod
6	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Dame	punct
8	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	10 Dame	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Dame	punct
10	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
11	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Dame	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 equal	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 equal	mark
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 skill	nmod:poss
15	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 equal	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 equal	cop
17	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 take	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 task	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 task	det
20	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 equal	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	comrades = comrade		tree rules
2	take	infinitive	comrades = comrade not said here	comrades's original shapes		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument shape=Theme dame=Destination
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	your skill		to the task; equal property	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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