Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 105
"It has given me many a headache," said the poor queen, "and it cannot cure my heartache."
Who acts: poor queen, crown · What happens: give, say, not cure · To what, where: crown, poor queen, heartache · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor queen, crown), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 given | iobj |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 headache | amod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 headache | det |
| 8 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 queen | amod |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 queen | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 queen | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cure | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cure | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 cure | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 cure | advmod |
| 21 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heartache | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heartache | heartache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cure | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 cure | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | crown | the poor queen = queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the poor queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not cure in a quote | can | crown | my heartache | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer heartache=Source |
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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