Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 102

"Dearest Cadmus," said she, "thou hast been the truest son that ever mother had, and faithful to the very last.

Who acts: Dearest, Telephassa, mother · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: truest son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dearest, Telephassa, mother), 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	_	2 Dearest	punct
2	Dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 said	nsubj
3	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dearest	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dearest	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dearest	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 son	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 son	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 son	punct
10	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 son	nsubj
11	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 son	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 son	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 son	det
14	truest	true	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 son	amod
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	obj
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 mother	advmod
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 son	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 faithful	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 faithful	cc
22	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 had	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 last	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 last	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 last	advmod
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 faithful	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dearest			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present · perfect	Telephassa	the truest son		tree rules
3	have in a quote	past	mother	the truest son	faithful property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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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