Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 59
But as your business is so urgent, I will try to carry you across.
Who acts: business, I · What happens: be, try, carry · To what, where: you
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 (business, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 try | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 urgent | mark |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 business | nmod:poss |
| 4 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 urgent | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 urgent | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 urgent | advmod |
| 7 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 try | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 urgent | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 try | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 try | aux |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 carry | mark |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 try | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | obj |
| 15 | across | across | ADV | _ | 13 carry | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | your business | urgent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | future | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | carry not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | across property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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