Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 87

If you like, you may sit down on it, and be my little queen, and I will sit on the footstool."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: like, sit down, be, sit · To what, where: throne, little queen, footstool

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, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 like	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 sit	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	aux
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sit	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 queen	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 queen	cc
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 queen	cop
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 queen	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 queen	amod
16	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sit	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sit	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sit	aux
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sit	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 footstool	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 footstool	det
24	footstool	footstool	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	sit down	may	you		throne	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
3	is a	infinitive		my little queen		tree rules
4	sit	future	I		the footstool	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on footstool=Location

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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