Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 104
Pray, what would you advise me to do with him?"
Who acts: you, me · What happens: pray, advise, do · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 advise | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 advise | obj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 advise | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 advise | nsubj |
| 6 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pray | conj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 advise | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 advise | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | would | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | with King | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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