Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 70

Then I might remember you sometimes, and think that you were as kind as you knew how to be.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: remember, think, be, know · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 remember	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	aux
4	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 remember	obj
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 remember	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 think	cc
9	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 kind	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 kind	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 kind	advmod
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 think	ccomp
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	advcl
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 be	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 be	mark
20	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knew	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	might	I	you	then	sometimes property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	think speech: other	present					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	you			kind property	tree rules
4	know	past	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «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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