Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 36
Do me the favor to drink the contents of this goblet.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, drink · To what, where: favor, me, contents
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | iobj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 favor | det |
| 4 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drink | mark |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 favor | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 contents | det |
| 8 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 drink | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 goblet | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 goblet | det |
| 11 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 contents | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | the favor | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | you not said here | the contents of this goblet | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Patient |
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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