Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 88

"Never!" sobbed Queen Telephassa; and the three brothers and Thasus answered, "Never!

Who acts: three brothers · What happens: not sob, answer · To what, where: Queen

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 (three brothers), 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	_	5 sobbed	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 sobbed	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Never	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Never	punct
5	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sobbed	obj
7	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Queen	flat
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 answered	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brothers	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 brothers	nummod
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 answered	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Thasus	cc
14	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 brothers	conj
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sobbed	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Never	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Never	punct
18	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 answered	conj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 sobbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sob	past		Queen					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	the three brothers and Thasus						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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