Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 47
To speak my mind plainly, you shall never set eyes on so much as one of its glistening locks."
Who acts: you, my · What happens: speak, not set, glisten, mind · To what, where: mind, eyes · 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 (you, my), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 speak | mark |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | advcl |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mind | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speak | obj |
| 5 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 2 speak | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 set | advmod |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 set | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 locks | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 locks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | glistening | glisten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 locks | amod |
| 20 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | you not said here | my mind | plainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not set | shall | you | eyes | on much one of mind's glistening locks | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on one=Destination | |||
| 3 | glisten | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition 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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