Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 37

But to test how much you have profited under so excellent a teacher, will you allow me to ask you a single question?"

Who acts: you · What happens: test, profit, allow, ask · To what, where: much, me, single question, you

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 test	cc
2	to	to	PART	_	3 test	mark
3	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 test	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 profited	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 profited	aux
8	profited	profit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 much	acl:relcl
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 excellent	case
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 excellent	advmod
11	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 profited	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 teacher	det
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 excellent	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 allow	punct
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 allow	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 allow	nsubj
17	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 test	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 allow	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ask	mark
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 allow	xcomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 ask	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 question	det
23	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 question	amod
24	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ask	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 test	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 test	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		much			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
2	profit	present · perfect	you			excellent property	vn benefit-72.2 «NP V»: agent=Beneficiary
3	allow	future	you		me		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a single question	you		tree rules

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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