Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 11
Get up this minute, and take your pine-tree walking stick in your hand.
Who acts: you · What happens: get up, take · To what, where: walking stick, hand
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Get | compound:prt |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 minute | det |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 take | cc |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 stick | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 pine | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | compound |
| 12 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stick | compound |
| 13 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | imperative | you not said here | minute | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | your walking stick | your hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stick=Value in hand=Location |
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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