Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 81
O, we shall be very good friends, and you will find me more agreeable than you expect, when once we get out of this troublesome sunshine."
Who acts: we, you · What happens: be, find, expect, get out · To what, where: good friends, me, troublesome sunshine
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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 friends | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 O | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 friends | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 friends | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friends | amod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 friends | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 agreeable | advmod |
| 16 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 find | xcomp |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 expect | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 expect | nsubj |
| 19 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 agreeable | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 get | advmod |
| 22 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 sunshine | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sunshine | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 sunshine | det |
| 28 | troublesome | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sunshine | amod |
| 29 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 friends | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | we | good friends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | me | agreeable property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | |||
| 3 | expect | present | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get out | present | we | this troublesome sunshine | tree rules |
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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