Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 54
Go, then, and at the peril of your life, bring me back the Golden Fleece."
Who acts: you · What happens: go, bring back, peril · To what, where: Golden Fleece, me, peril, life
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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bring | cc |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 peril | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 peril | det |
| 8 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peril | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 peril | punct |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fleece | det |
| 17 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Fleece | amod |
| 18 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring back | infinitive | you not said here | the Golden Fleece | me | the peril of your life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fleece=Theme | ||
| 3 | peril | your life | nom peril «state 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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