Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 75
Wait till we come to my palace, and I will give you a garden full of prettier flowers than those, all made of pearls, and diamonds, and rubies.
Who acts: you, we, I · What happens: wait, come, give, make · To what, where: palace, garden, you, all
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, 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 4 come | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 give | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 flowers | case |
| 18 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 flowers | amod |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 full | obl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 flowers | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 made | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 those | acl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pearls | case |
| 26 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 made | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 diamonds | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 diamonds | cc |
| 29 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 made | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rubies | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 rubies | cc |
| 32 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present | we | my palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | give | future | I | a garden | you | full property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient garden=Theme | ||
| 4 | make | participle · passive | all | of pearls; diamonds obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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