Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 35

If I were to tell you all the adventures of the Argonauts, it would take me till nightfall, and perhaps a great deal longer.

Who acts: I, it · What happens: tell, take, adventure · To what, where: adventures, you, me, Argonauts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it), 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	_	5 tell	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 adventures	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 adventures	det
9	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Argonauts	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Argonauts	det
12	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 adventures	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 take	obj
18	till	till	ADP	_	19 nightfall	case
19	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 deal	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 deal	cc
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	25 deal	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 deal	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 deal	amod
25	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	conj
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 deal	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	I	all adventures of the Argonauts	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient adventure=Topic
2	take	would	it		me	till nightfall	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
3	adventure			the Argonauts			nom adventure «act 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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