Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 60
If the river sweeps you away, it shall take me too."
Who acts: river, it · What happens: sweep away, take · To what, where: you, me
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 (river, it), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 sweeps | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweeps | nsubj |
| 4 | sweeps | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sweeps | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 sweeps | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweeps | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep away a condition, not said to happen | present | the river | you | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | shall | it | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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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