Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 31

It would hardly be doing yourself justice, were you to bring me acquainted with them, sitting here on this snow bank!"

Who acts: study, you · What happens: do, bring, acquaint, sit · To what, where: yourself, me, snow bank

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 (study, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 doing	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 doing	aux
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bring	advcl
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 doing	obj
7	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bring	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 bring	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bring	mark
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 bring	obj
14	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bring	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 acquainted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sitting	punct
18	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bring	conj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 sitting	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 bank	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 bank	det
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bank	compound
23	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	would · progressive	study	yourself		hardly property	tree rules
2	bring	past	you	me			tree rules
3	acquaint speech: other	participle	you not said here			with stories = story	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	sit	gerund	you not said here		this snow bank; here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location

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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