Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 84

Let me hit you but one box on the ear, and you'll never have the headache again."

Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, hit, not have · To what, where: me, you, headache

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, me), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hit	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 box	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 box	nummod
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ear	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ear	det
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 headache	det
18	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 have	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me			tree rules
2	hit	infinitive	me not said here	you		on the ear	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Instrument on ear=Patient
3	not have	future	you	the headache	again		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Patient

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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