Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 48
It is well for you that I am favorably inclined; for, otherwise, you would hardly escape being snapped up by the dragon."
Who acts: staff, you, dragon · What happens: be, incline, escape, snap up · To what, where: I
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 (staff, you, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 you | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 you | cop |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 you | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 escape | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 inclined | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 inclined | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 inclined | aux:pass |
| 9 | favorably | favorably | ADV | _ | 10 inclined | advmod |
| 10 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 escape | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 inclined | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 inclined | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 otherwise | punct |
| 14 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 10 inclined | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inclined | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 escape | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 escape | aux |
| 18 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 19 escape | advmod |
| 19 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 snapped | aux:pass |
| 21 | snapped | snap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 escape | xcomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 snapped | compound:prt |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 dragon | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dragon | det |
| 25 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 snapped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 escape | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | staff | for you; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | incline | present · passive | I | favorably, otherwise property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | escape | would | you | hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | snap up | gerund · passive | the dragon | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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