Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 97
I shall never smile again till you set me down at my mother's door."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not smile, set down · To what, where: me, door
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, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 smile | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 smile | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 smile | advmod |
| 4 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 smile | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 set | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 smile | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 set | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 door | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smile | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 smile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not smile | shall | I | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set down | present | you | me | my mother's door | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme at door=Destination |
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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