Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 11
But, as long as I do live, I shall creep daily to the top of yonder cliff, to watch if there be a sail upon the sea.
Who acts: I, sail · What happens: live, creep, watch, be · To what, where: top
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 (I, sail), 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 | _ | 8 live | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 live | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 live | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 live | aux |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 creep | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 creep | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 creep | aux |
| 12 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 live | conj |
| 13 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 12 creep | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 creep | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cliff | case |
| 18 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 19 cliff | advmod |
| 19 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 watch | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 watch | mark |
| 22 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 creep | parataxis |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 be | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 be | expl |
| 25 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 watch | xcomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sail | det |
| 27 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 be | nsubj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 sea | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sea | det |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sail | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · do-support | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | creep | shall | I | the top of cliff | daily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | |||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | a sail upon the sea | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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