Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 31
Pray what may I call your name? and where did you receive your education?"
Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: pray, call, receive, name, educate · To what, where: name, education · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, I, your), 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 call | obj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pray | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 receive | cc |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 receive | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 receive | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 receive | nsubj |
| 13 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pray | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 education | nmod:poss |
| 15 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 receive | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | may | I | your name | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme name=Result | ||||
| 3 | receive | past · do-support | you | your education | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent education=Theme | ||||
| 4 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | educate | your | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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