Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 77
I shall pick my steps carefully, for fear of treading upon some fifty of you, without knowing it.
Who acts: I, fear, my · What happens: pick, tread, know, step · To what, where: steps, fifty, fear
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 (I, fear, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:675): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 pick | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pick | aux |
| 3 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steps | nmod:poss |
| 5 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pick | obj |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 pick | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fear | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 fear | case |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pick | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 treading | mark |
| 11 | treading | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 fear | acl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 fifty | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 fifty | advmod |
| 14 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 treading | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 fifty | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knowing | punct |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 knowing | mark |
| 19 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 pick | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knowing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | shall | I | my steps | for fear; carefully property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent step=Theme for fear=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | tread | gerund | fear not said here | fifty of you | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fifty=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | I not said here | fear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | step | my | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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