Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 15

And how dare you make this disturbance, while I am sacrificing a black bull to my father Neptune?"

Who acts: dare, I · What happens: make, sacrifice · To what, where: disturbance, black bull, father

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dare, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 make	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
3	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 disturbance	det
7	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sacrificing	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 sacrificing	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sacrificing	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sacrificing	aux
12	sacrificing	sacrifice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 make	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bull	det
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bull	amod
15	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sacrificing	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 father	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sacrificing	obl
19	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 father	appos
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 sacrificing	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	dare	this disturbance					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset disturbance=Product
2	sacrifice	present · progressive	I	a black bull	my father				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bull=Theme to father=Recipient

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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