Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 75

While they were standing there, all in dismay, their mother, Queen Telephassa (who happened not to be by when they told the story to the king), came hurrying after them, and said that she too would go in quest of her daughter.

Who acts: eyes, Telephassa, daughter · What happens: stand, not happen, be, come, hurry, say · To what, where: dismay, quest · 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 (eyes, Telephassa, daughter), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 standing	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 standing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 standing	aux
4	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 standing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 standing	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 dismay	det
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 dismay	case
9	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 standing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mother	punct
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dismay	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Telephassa	punct
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Telephassa	nmod:desc
15	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dismay	nmod
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 happened	nsubj
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Telephassa	acl:relcl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 happened	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	19 not	fixed
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	cop
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 told	mark
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 told	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 to	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 story	det
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 king	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 story	nmod
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 king	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 told	conj
34	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 came	xcomp
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hurrying	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 came	parataxis
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 go	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 go	nsubj
42	too	too	ADV	_	44 go	advmod
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 go	aux
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 quest	case
46	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 go	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 daughter	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 daughter	nmod:poss
49	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 quest	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	eyes = eye	all dismay Telephassa Queen and eyes's mother	there			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dismay=Stimulus
2	not happen	past	Telephassa Queen					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	infinitive	eyes = eye				tell property	tree rules
4	come	past	eyes = eye not said here					tree rules
5	hurry	gerund	eyes = eye not said here			after eyes = eye		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	go	would	Telephassa		quest of Telephassa's daughter			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in quest=Location
8	quest		Telephassa's daughter					nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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