Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 100
You will need it; and pray Heaven you may use it well."
Who acts: You · What happens: need, pray, use · To what, where: sword, Heaven
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 need | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 need | aux |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 need | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 pray | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pray | cc |
| 7 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 need | parataxis |
| 8 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pray | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 use | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 use | aux |
| 11 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pray | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 use | obj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 use | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | future | You | sword | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pray | infinitive | Heaven | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | use | may | you | sword | well property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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