Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 36

If you will trust to me, I can instruct you how to tame the fiery bulls, and sow the dragon's teeth, and get the Golden Fleece."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: trust, instruct, tame, sow, get · To what, where: me, you, fiery bulls, teeth, Golden Fleece

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, I), 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	_	4 trust	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 trust	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 trust	aux
4	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 instruct	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 trust	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trust	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 instruct	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 instruct	aux
10	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 instruct	obj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 tame	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tame	mark
14	tame	tame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 instruct	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bulls	det
16	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bulls	amod
17	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tame	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sow	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sow	cc
20	sow	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 instruct	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dragon	det
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 teeth	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 dragon	case
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sow	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 get	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 get	cc
27	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 instruct	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Fleece	det
29	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Fleece	amod
30	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 get	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 get	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	trust a condition, not said to happen	future	you		me	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
2	instruct speech: other	can	I		you	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	tame	to-infinitive	I not said here	the fiery bulls		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bull=Patient
4	sow	present	I not said here	the dragon's teeth		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
5	get	infinitive		the Golden Fleece		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleece=Stimulus

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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