Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 43

Just take me on your back, there's a good youth, and carry me across the river.

Who acts: you, good youth · What happens: take, be, carry · To what, where: me, back, river

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, good youth), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 take	advmod
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 take	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 's	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 's	expl
9	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 take	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 youth	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 youth	amod
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 's	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carry	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carry	cc
15	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 take	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 carry	obj
17	across	across	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carry	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	me	your back	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on back=Destination
2	be	present	a good youth		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	carry	infinitive		me	the river	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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