Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 109
If you do so, the poor infant must suffer for his mother's folly."
Who acts: you, poor infant · What happens: do, suffer
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 (you, poor infant), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 suffer | advcl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 infant | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 infant | amod |
| 8 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suffer | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 suffer | aux |
| 10 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 folly | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 folly | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 15 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suffer | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 suffer | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | suffer | must | the poor infant | for infant's mother's folly | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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