Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 69
And the best thing you can now do is, to let me go again.
Who acts: you, best thing · What happens: do, be, go · To what, where: best thing
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, best thing), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 let | mark |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | you | the best thing not said here | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | the best thing | let property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | the best thing not said here | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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