Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 18
See if you can lift this rock on which we are sitting?"
Who acts: you, we · What happens: see, lift, sit · To what, where: rock
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, we), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 lift | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lift | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lift | aux |
| 5 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 See | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 rock | det |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lift | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sitting | obl |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sitting | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sitting | aux |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rock | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lift a condition, not said to happen | can | you | this rock | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | present · progressive | we | this rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
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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