Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 65
I am ashamed to kill such a puny little dwarf as you seem to be.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, kill, seem
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, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ashamed | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ashamed | cop |
| 3 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 kill | mark |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ashamed | xcomp |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 dwarf | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dwarf | det |
| 8 | puny | puny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dwarf | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dwarf | amod |
| 10 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kill | ccomp |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 seem | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 seem | nsubj |
| 13 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dwarf | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 be | mark |
| 15 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seem | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | you | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | be | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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