Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 87

And when you sit on your throne remember the old woman whom you helped over the river."

Who acts: you · What happens: sit, remember, help · To what, where: throne, old woman, 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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 remember	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sit	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
4	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 remember	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 throne	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 throne	nmod:poss
7	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
8	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remember	obj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 helped	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 helped	nsubj
14	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 woman	acl:relcl
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 helped	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remember	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit	present	you			your throne	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
2	remember	imperative	you not said here	the old woman			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
3	help	past	you		the old woman	the river	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary

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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