Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 44
I and my peacock have something to do on the other side, as well as yourself."
Who acts: I · What happens: have, do · To what, where: something, other side
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 have | cc |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 peacock | nmod:poss |
| 4 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 something | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yourself | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 17 yourself | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 17 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 have | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | infinitive | I | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | something not said here | the other side | vn act-114-1 «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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