Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 17

Ah, it would be just the spot for one to sit in, of a summer afternoon, and tell the children some more of those wild stories from the classic myths!"

Who acts: thing · What happens: be, sit in, tell · To what, where: spot, more, children, classic myths · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 spot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spot	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 spot	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 spot	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 spot	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spot	det
8	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 spot	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sit	mark
12	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spot	acl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 sit	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 afternoon	punct
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 afternoon	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 afternoon	det
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 afternoon	compound
18	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tell	cc
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sit	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tell	obj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 more	det
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 tell	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 stories	case
27	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 stories	det
28	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stories	amod
29	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 more	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 myths	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 myths	det
32	classic	classic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 myths	amod
33	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tell	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 spot	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 spot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	thing	the spot				for one	tree rules
2	sit in	to-infinitive					afternoon		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive		some more	the children	the classic myths			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient more=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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