Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 24
But do you first come with your torch, and help me to seek for my lost child.
Who acts: you, me · What happens: come, help, seek, lose · To what, where: me
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, me), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 torch | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 torch | nmod:poss |
| 8 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 help | cc |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seek | mark |
| 14 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 help | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 child | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 child | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 child | amod |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seek | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · do-support | you | with your torch; first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | me not said here | for my lost child | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for child=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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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