Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 20

"Many more," said Eustace; "Primrose, Periwinkle, and the rest of them, allow me no comfort of my life unless I tell them a story every day or two.

Who acts: Many, rest · What happens: say, allow, tell, comfort · To what, where: comfort, Many, story, legends, life · 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 (Many, rest), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Many	punct
2	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	nsubj
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Many	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Many	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Many	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 Primrose	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Primrose	punct
10	Primrose	primrose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Eustace	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Periwinkle	punct
12	Periwinkle	Periwinkle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Eustace	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 allow	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 allow	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 allow	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rest	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rest	punct
20	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 allow	iobj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 comfort	det
23	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 allow	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 life	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 life	nmod:poss
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comfort	nmod
27	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	29 tell	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 tell	nsubj
29	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 allow	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 story	det
32	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obj
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 day	det
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obl:unmarked
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 two	cc
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 day	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Many				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	allow in a quote	infinitive	the rest of legends	no comfort of my life	Many		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal comfort=Theme
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Many	a story	legends = legend	day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
4	comfort in a quote			my life			nom comfort «state transitive»: of=patient

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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