Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 72

I do not know what he means to do with himself after leaving college, but trust that, by dabbling so early with the dangerous and seductive business of authorship, he will not be tempted to become an author by profession.

Who acts: I, Mr. · What happens: not know, mean, do, leave, dabble, not tempt · To what, where: college, Mr., author · 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 (I, Mr.), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 means	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 do	obl
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 leaving	mark
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 do	advcl
14	college	college	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaving	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 trust	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 trust	cc
17	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	ccomp
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 tempted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 that	punct
20	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 dabbling	mark
21	dabbling	dabble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 that	advcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 early	advmod
23	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 dabbling	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	29 business	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 business	det
26	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 business	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seductive	cc
28	seductive	seductive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dangerous	conj
29	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dabbling	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 authorship	case
31	authorship	authorship	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 business	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 that	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tempted	nsubj:pass
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 tempted	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 tempted	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 tempted	aux:pass
37	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 trust	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 become	mark
39	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 tempted	advcl
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 author	det
41	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 become	xcomp
42	by	by	ADP	_	43 profession	case
43	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 author	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	mean	present	Mr.			tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive			with Mr.	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	leave	gerund		college		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent college=Theme
5	dabble	gerund			with the dangerous business of authorship; early property	tree rules
6	not tempt	future · passive		Mr.	trust obl	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
7	become	to-infinitive		a author by profession		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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