Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 62
"How will you prevent me," asked Hercules, "from going whither I please?"
Who acts: Hercules, you · What happens: prevent, ask, go · To what, where: me, Hercules · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hercules, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevent | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 prevent | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 prevent | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 prevent | nsubj |
| 5 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 prevent | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prevent | advcl |
| 10 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevent | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevent | punct |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 prevent | advcl |
| 15 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 please | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 please | nsubj |
| 17 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 14 going | discourse |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevent | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent in a quote | future | Hercules | me | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | you not said here | Hercules | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hercules=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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