Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 4

He never harms people, unless they try to enter my dominions without being sent for, or to get away when I wish to keep them here.

Who acts: companion, people, I · What happens: not harm, try, enter, send, get away, wish · To what, where: people, dominions

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companion, people, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 harms	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 harms	advmod
3	harms	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 harms	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 try	punct
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	8 try	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 try	nsubj
8	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harms	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 enter	mark
10	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	xcomp
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dominions	nmod:poss
12	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 enter	obj
13	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 sent	mark
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sent	aux:pass
15	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 enter	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	15 sent	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 get	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 get	mark
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 get	advmod
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 wish	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 wish	nsubj
24	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 get	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wish	xcomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 keep	obj
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 keep	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 harms	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not harm	present	companion	people			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
2	try a condition, not said to happen	present	people				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here	my dominions			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dominion=Destination
4	send	gerund · passive	people not said here				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»
5	get away	to-infinitive	people not said here			away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	dominions = dominion	here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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