Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 61
I recommend to you, my dear lady, to give yourself no uneasiness.
Who acts: I · What happens: recommend, give · To what, where: dear lady, you, uneasiness, yourself
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 recommend | nsubj |
| 2 | recommend | recommend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 recommend | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lady | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recommend | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 recommend | parataxis |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 uneasiness | det |
| 14 | uneasiness | uneasiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recommend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommend | present | I | my dear lady | you | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | no uneasiness | yourself | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient uneasiness=Theme |
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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