Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 24

But we will pop up our heads every few minutes to see if you are coming."

Who acts: we, you · What happens: pop up, see, come · To what, where: heads

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 (we, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 pop	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 pop	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pop	aux
4	pop	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pop	compound:prt
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heads	nmod:poss
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pop	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 minutes	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 minutes	amod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pop	obl:unmarked
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pop	advcl
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 coming	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 coming	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 coming	aux
16	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 see	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pop	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pop up	future	we	our heads	minute	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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