Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 2
Let us get on board the galley this instant; and if the dragon is to make a breakfast of us, much good may it do him."
Who acts: you, us, dragon · What happens: let, get, be, do · To what, where: us, instant, galley, him
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, dragon), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 galley | case |
| 5 | board | board | ADP | _ | 7 galley | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 galley | det |
| 7 | galley | galley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 instant | det |
| 9 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 breakfast | det |
| 19 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 breakfast | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 good | advmod |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 do | ccomp |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | us not said here | this instant | the galley | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent instant=Theme on galley=Source | |||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the dragon | make property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | may | dragon | him = he | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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