Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 46

Besides, as you may see for yourself, the river is very boisterous; and if I should chance to stumble, it would sweep both of us away more easily than it has carried off yonder uprooted tree.

Who acts: you, river, I · What happens: see, be, chance, stumble, sweep, carry off · To what, where: both, 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, river, 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	Besides	besides	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 see	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 yourself	case
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 see	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 boisterous	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boisterous	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 boisterous	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 boisterous	advmod
14	boisterous	boisterous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 see	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sweep	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sweep	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 chance	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 chance	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 chance	aux
20	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sweep	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 stumble	mark
22	stumble	stumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 chance	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chance	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sweep	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sweep	aux
26	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	conj
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sweep	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 us	case
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 both	nmod
30	away	away	ADV	_	26 sweep	advmod
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 easily	advmod
32	easily	easily	ADV	_	36 carried	advmod
33	than	than	SCONJ	_	36 carried	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 carried	nsubj:pass
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 carried	aux
36	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 sweep	advcl
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 carried	compound:prt
38	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	39 uprooted	advmod
39	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 tree	amod
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 carried	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	may	you		for yourself; besides property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	the river		boisterous property	tree rules
3	chance a condition, not said to happen	should	I			tree rules
4	stumble	to-infinitive	river not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sweep	would	river	both	away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location both=Theme
6	carry off	present · perfect · passive		river	easily property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary tree=Value
7	uproot	participle			yonder property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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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