Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 37
I hope you have been considering the matter a little more wisely, and have concluded not to get yourself scorched to a cinder, in attempting to tame my brazen-lunged bulls."
Who acts: I, you, yourself · What happens: hope, consider, conclude, not get, scorch, attempt · To what, where: matter, yourself, lunged bulls · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, you, yourself), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 considering | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 considering | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 considering | aux |
| 6 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hope | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 matter | det |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 considering | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 more | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 considering | advmod |
| 12 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 concluded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 concluded | cc |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 concluded | aux |
| 16 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 hope | conj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 get | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 concluded | advcl |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | scorched | scorch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 get | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 cinder | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cinder | det |
| 24 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 scorched | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 attempting | punct |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 attempting | mark |
| 27 | attempting | attempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 concluded | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 tame | mark |
| 29 | tame | tame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 attempting | xcomp |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 bulls | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 lunged | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 brazen | punct |
| 33 | lunged | lunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 bulls | amod |
| 34 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 tame | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | consider | present · perfect · progressive | you | the matter | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent matter=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | conclude | present · perfect | I not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not get | to-infinitive | I not said here | yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | scorch | participle | yourself not said here | to a cinder | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | attempt | gerund | I not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | tame not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my lunged bulls | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bull=Patient | ||||
| 8 | lunge | participle | tree rules |
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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