Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 56
If I fail, you need not fear that I will ever come back to trouble you again.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: fail, not fear, come back · To what, where: trouble
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 (I, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 fail | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fear | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fail | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 fear | nsubj |
| 6 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fear | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fear | advmod |
| 8 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 come | advmod |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fear | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 trouble | mark |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 trouble | obj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not fear | present | you | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come back | future | I | trouble | ever; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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