Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 90
Villain, I'll fling you where you can never pick yourself up again."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: fling, not pick up · To what, where: you, yourself
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 | Villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fling | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Villain | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fling | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fling | aux |
| 5 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fling | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 pick | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 pick | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pick | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 pick | advmod |
| 11 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fling | parataxis |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 pick | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 pick | compound:prt |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 pick | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fling | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | future | I | you | Villain vocative | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | not pick up | can | you | yourself | again | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic |
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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