Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 71

Perhaps, too, one day or other, I might come back, and pay you a visit."

Who acts: I · What happens: come back, pay · To what, where: you

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), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Perhaps	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	1 Perhaps	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Perhaps	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Perhaps	obl:unmarked
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 other	cc
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Perhaps	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pay	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pay	cc
16	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 pay	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 visit	det
19	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pay	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	might	I					perhaps property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pay	infinitive	I not said here		you				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient visit=Asset

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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