Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 30
But let us adjourn to my study, and examine these new stories.
Who acts: you, us, my · What happens: let, adjourn, examine, study · To what, where: us, new stories
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 (you, us, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | adjourn | adjourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 study | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 study | nmod:poss |
| 7 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adjourn | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 examine | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 examine | cc |
| 10 | examine | examine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 stories | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stories | amod |
| 13 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 examine | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | adjourn | infinitive | us not said here | to my study | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | examine | infinitive | you not said here | this new stories | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 4 | study | my | nom study «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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