Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 57

Tell me, you naughty sea nymphs, have you enticed her under the sea?"

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, nymph, have, entice · To what, where: me, child, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nymphs	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 nymphs	nsubj
5	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nymphs	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nymphs	compound
7	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 enticed	nsubj
11	enticed	entice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 have	ccomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 enticed	obj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 enticed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	nymph		you				tree rules
3	have	present					tree rules
4	entice	past	you	child		the sea	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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