Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 41

I will pull it up by the roots, and carry it home, and plant it in my mother's garden."

Who acts: I · What happens: pull up, carry, plant · To what, where: courage, garden

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 pull	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	aux
3	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pull	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 pull	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 roots	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roots	det
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pull	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carry	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carry	cc
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pull	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carry	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	11 carry	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 plant	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 plant	cc
16	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 plant	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 garden	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 mother	case
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plant	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pull	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 pull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull up	future	I	courage		by the roots	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	carry	infinitive	I not said here	courage		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	plant	infinitive		courage	my mother's garden		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in garden=Destination

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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