Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 56
Will you not like to ride a little way with me, in my beautiful chariot?"
Who acts: you · What happens: not like, ride · To what, where: little way, beautiful chariot
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), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ride | mark |
| 6 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ride | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ride | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chariot | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 chariot | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chariot | amod |
| 16 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ride | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | future | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ride not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a little way | my beautiful chariot | with me | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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