Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 67
So throw down your club and your other weapons; and as for that lion's skin, I intend to have a pair of gloves made of it."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: throw down, intend, have, make · To what, where: club, pair, gloves
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, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 throw | advmod |
| 2 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 throw | compound:prt |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 club | nmod:poss |
| 5 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 throw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 weapons | cc |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 weapons | amod |
| 9 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 club | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 skin | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 skin | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 skin | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 skin | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 lion | det |
| 15 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 lion | case |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 throw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 intend | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 intend | nsubj |
| 20 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 throw | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 intend | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pair | det |
| 24 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gloves | case |
| 26 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pair | nmod |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 gloves | acl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 throw | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw down | imperative | you not said here | your club and your other weapons | for that lion's skin | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | |||
| 2 | intend | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a pair of gloves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | gloves not said here | of pair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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