Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 16
And don't you see how careful we are to let the surf wave break over us every moment or two, so as to keep ourselves comfortably moist?
Who acts: you, we · What happens: not see, be, let, keep · To what, where: wave break, ourselves
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, we), 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 | _ | 5 see | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 careful | advmod |
| 7 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 see | xcomp |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 careful | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 careful | cop |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 let | mark |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 careful | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 break | det |
| 13 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wave | compound |
| 14 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 break | compound |
| 15 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 us | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obl |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 moment | det |
| 19 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 two | cc |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 moment | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 keep | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 keep | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 keep | mark |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 keep | mark |
| 26 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | advcl |
| 27 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 keep | obj |
| 28 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 26 keep | advmod |
| 29 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 keep | xcomp |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | infinitive · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | we | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | we not said here | the wave break | moment | over us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme | ||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | ourselves | comfortably, moist property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme |
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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