Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 107

Well; I will be the nurse of this poor, sickly boy.

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: nurse

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 nurse	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 nurse	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 nurse	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 nurse	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nurse	det
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 boy	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 boy	nsubj
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 poor	punct
12	sickly	sickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nurse	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 nurse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	I	the nurse				of poor sickly boy	tree rules

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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