Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 107

Were we to take but a few steps from the doorway, we might wander about all our lifetime, and never find it again.

Who acts: we · What happens: take, wander, not find · To what, where: few steps, doorway, lifetime

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 (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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 steps	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 steps	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 steps	amod
8	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 doorway	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doorway	det
11	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 steps	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wander	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 wander	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 wander	aux
15	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	19 lifetime	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 lifetime	det:predet
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lifetime	nmod:poss
19	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wander	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 find	advmod
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	obj
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 find	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	we	a few steps	the doorway			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent step=Theme from doorway=Initial_Location
2	wander	might	we				about our lifetime	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about lifetime=Trajectory
3	not find	infinitive	we not said here	lifetime		again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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