Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 112
And will you carry me back when I have seen it?"
Who acts: you, I · What happens: carry back, see · To what, where: me, twilight
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 carry | cc |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 carry | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 carry | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry back | future | you | me | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | I | twilight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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