Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 84
Only let King Pelias get a glimpse of that bare foot, and you shall see him turn as pale as ashes, I promise you.
Who acts: you, King, I · What happens: let, get, see, turn, promise, glimpse · To what, where: King, glimpse, you, bare foot
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, King, 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 let | advmod |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | flat |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glimpse | det |
| 7 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 foot | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 foot | det |
| 10 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 foot | amod |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glimpse | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | xcomp |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 pale | advmod |
| 20 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 turn | xcomp |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 ashes | case |
| 22 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pale | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 promise | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 promise | nsubj |
| 25 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | parataxis |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 promise | iobj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | King not said here | a glimpse of that bare foot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | shall | you | King | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn | infinitive | King not said here | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | present | I | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | glimpse | that bare foot | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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