Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 52

Either take me on your back, or with my poor old limbs I shall try my best to struggle across the stream."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, try, struggle · To what, where: me, back, best, stream

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, 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	Either	either	CCONJ	_	2 take	cc:preconj
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	_	16 try	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 try	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 limbs	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 limbs	nmod:poss
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 limbs	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 limbs	amod
13	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 try	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 try	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 try	aux
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 best	nmod:poss
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 try	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 struggle	mark
20	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 try	xcomp
21	across	across	ADP	_	23 stream	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stream	det
23	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struggle	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	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	try	shall	I	my best		with my poor old limbs	tree rules
3	struggle not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		the stream		vn battle-36.4 «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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