Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 22

But while you are gone, we may as well lie down on a bank of soft sponge under the water.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, lie down · To what, where: bank

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 lie	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lie	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lie	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lie	aux
9	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	11 lie	cc
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 as	fixed
11	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 lie	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 bank	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bank	det
15	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sponge	case
17	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sponge	amod
18	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bank	nmod
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sponge	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					gone property	tree rules
2	lie down	may	we			a bank of soft sponge under the water			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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