Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 70

Pray, how big may your soul be?"

Who acts: you, soul · What happens: pray, be

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, soul), 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	Pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pray	ccomp
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 be	aux
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 soul	nmod:poss
7	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 be	nsubj
8	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 big	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Pray	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	imperative	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	be	may	your soul						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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