Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 102
One always finds a use for these mischievous creatures, sooner or later; so I did not wish to kill him outright.
Who acts: One, I · What happens: find, not wish, kill · To what, where: use, potion
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 finds | advmod |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 creatures | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 creatures | det |
| 8 | mischievous | mischievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creatures | amod |
| 9 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 finds | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sooner | punct |
| 11 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 finds | advmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 later | cc |
| 13 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 sooner | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 wish | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 wish | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wish | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wish | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wish | advmod |
| 19 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 finds | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 kill | mark |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wish | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | outright | outright | ADV | _ | 21 kill | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | One | a use | for this mischievous creatures; always, soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent use=Theme for creature=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | not wish | past · do-support | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | potion | outright property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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