Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 63

It will be excellent sport, I assure you, when they catch a glimpse of your figure.

Who acts: corner, I, princesses, your · What happens: be, assure, catch, glimpse, figure · To what, where: excellent sport, you, glimpse, figure

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 (corner, I, princesses, your), 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 sport	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sport	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sport	cop
4	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sport	amod
5	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 assure	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 assure	nsubj
8	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sport	parataxis
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 assure	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 catch	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 catch	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 catch	nsubj
13	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 assure	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 glimpse	det
15	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 catch	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 figure	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 figure	nmod:poss
18	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 glimpse	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sport	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	future	corner	excellent sport		tree rules
2	assure	present	I		you	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	catch	present	princesses = princess	a glimpse of your figure		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme
4	glimpse			your figure		nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient
5	figure		your			nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=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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