Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 57
But if I return to Iolchos with the prize, then, King Pelias, you must hasten down from your lofty throne, and give me your crown and sceptre."
Who acts: I, King, your · What happens: return, hasten down, give, crown · To what, where: Iolchos, lofty throne, crown, me
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, King, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 hasten | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 return | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 return | nsubj |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hasten | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Iolchos | case |
| 6 | Iolchos | Iolchos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 return | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 prize | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prize | det |
| 9 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 return | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 hasten | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 then | punct |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hasten | nsubj |
| 14 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 King | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 hasten | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hasten | aux |
| 18 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 hasten | compound:prt |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 throne | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 throne | amod |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hasten | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 give | cc |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hasten | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 crown | nmod:poss |
| 29 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sceptre | cc |
| 31 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 crown | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hasten | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return a condition, not said to happen | present | I | Iolchos | with the prize | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to iolchos=Result | |||
| 2 | hasten down | must | King | your lofty throne | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from throne=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | give | infinitive | King not said here | your crown and sceptre | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient crown=Theme | |||
| 4 | crown | your | nom crown «communication 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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