Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 39

And what do you want in my dominions?"

Who acts: you · What happens: want · To what, where: dominions

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 want	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 want	obj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 dominions	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dominions	nmod:poss
8	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	you			my dominions			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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