Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 5
May I not run down to the shore, and ask some of the sea nymphs to come up out of the waves and play with me?"
Who acts: I, some · What happens: not run down, ask, come up, play · To what, where: some, waves
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, some), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 run | advmod |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 down | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ask | cc |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 run | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 ask | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 nymphs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nymphs | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nymphs | compound |
| 16 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 some | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ask | xcomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 come | compound:prt |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 waves | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 waves | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 waves | det |
| 23 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 play | cc |
| 25 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 play | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run down | may | I | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | I not said here | some | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent some=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come up not said to happen | to-infinitive | some not said here | the waves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out wave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | play | present | some not said here | with me | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent |
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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