Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 78

"Alas! my dear children," answered poor Queen Telephassa; weeping bitterly, "that is only another reason why I should go with you.

Who acts: dear children, that · What happens: answer, weep, be, go · To what, where: poor Queen, reason · 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 (dear children, that), 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	_	9 answered	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 children	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 children	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 answered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 children	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 children	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 reason	csubj
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Queen	amod
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Queen	flat
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 weeping	punct
14	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 answered	advcl
15	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	14 weeping	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 reason	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 reason	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 reason	advmod
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 reason	det
22	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 go	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 reason	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 go	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	my dear children		poor Queen		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
2	weep	gerund	my dear children not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	that	another reason			tree rules
4	go in a quote	should	my dear children = child			with poor Queen = queen	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary

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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