Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 42
But how can you help me to do the things of which you speak?
Who acts: you, me · What happens: help, do, speak · To what, where: me, things · Speech: someone speaks here
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, me), 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 | _ | 5 help | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 help | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 things | det |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 do | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 speak | obl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 speak | nsubj |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | you | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | me not said here | the things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | you | of the things | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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