Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 87

Is there nothing which I can get you to eat?"

Who acts: nothing, you · What happens: be, get, eat · 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 (nothing, 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	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 Is	expl
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Is	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 get	nsubj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl:relcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	can		you		tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «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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