Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 53
These enchantresses, you must know, are never to be depended upon.
Who acts: you · What happens: know, not depend · To what, where: enchantresses
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), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 enchantresses | det |
| 2 | enchantresses | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 depended | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 enchantresses | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 enchantresses | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 enchantresses | punct |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 depended | aux:pass |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 depended | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 depended | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 depended | aux:pass |
| 12 | depended | depend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 depended | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 depended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | you | this enchantresses not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer enchantress=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not depend | present · passive | this enchantresses | 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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