Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 59
We never should dream of such a thing.
Who acts: We · What happens: not dream
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dream | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 dream | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 dream | aux |
| 4 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thing | case |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 thing | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dream | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dream | should | We | of such thing | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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