Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 91
With so little time to live, I do not choose to waste any of it in sleep."
Who acts: I · What happens: live, not choose, waste · To what, where: any, sleep
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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 little | advmod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 choose | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 choose | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 choose | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 choose | advmod |
| 11 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 waste | mark |
| 13 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 choose | xcomp |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 waste | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 any | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sleep | case |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 waste | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 choose | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not choose | present · do-support | I | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | waste | to-infinitive | I not said here | any | sleep | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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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