Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 27

But when you can lift this rock, and show me what is hidden beneath it, I promise you my permission to depart."

Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: lift, show, hide, promise, depart, permit · To what, where: rock, me, permission, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 lift	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 lift	advmod
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	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lift	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 show	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 show	cc
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lift	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 show	iobj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 hidden	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hidden	aux:pass
14	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 show	ccomp
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hidden	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 promise	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 promise	nsubj
19	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lift	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 promise	iobj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 permission	nmod:poss
22	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 promise	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 depart	mark
24	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 promise	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lift	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	lift	can	you	this rock			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme
2	show	infinitive	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hide	present · passive				rock	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient beneath it=Location
4	promise speech: promise	present	I	my permission	you		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal permission=Theme
5	depart	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	permit		my				nom permission «communication 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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