Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 94
When you desire good advice, you can seek it of me."
Who acts: you · What happens: desire, seek · To what, where: good advice, advice
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 desire | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 desire | nsubj |
| 3 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seek | advcl |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 advice | amod |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 desire | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 desire | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 seek | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 seek | aux |
| 9 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seek | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seek | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seek | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | you | good advice | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | can | you | advice | of me | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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