Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 59

I have come hither because this is my most convenient road to the garden of the Hesperides, whither I am going to get three of the golden apples for King Eurystheus."

Who acts: I, this · What happens: come, be, go, get · To what, where: convenient road, three

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 (I, this), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	hither	hither	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 road	mark
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 road	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 road	cop
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 road	nmod:poss
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 convenient	advmod
10	convenient	convenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 road	amod
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 garden	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 road	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Hesperides	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Hesperides	det
17	Hesperides	Hesperid	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 garden	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
19	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	22 going	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 going	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 road	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 going	xcomp
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 get	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 apples	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 apples	det
28	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 apples	amod
29	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 three	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 Eurystheus	case
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Eurystheus	compound
32	Eurystheus	Eurystheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 apples	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I		hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	this	my convenient road	to the garden of the Hesperides	tree rules
3	go	present · progressive	I		whither property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get	to-infinitive	I not said here	three of the golden apples for King Eurystheus		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer three=Stimulus

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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