Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 108

"O mother, mother," cried Cadmus, "couldst thou but have seen my sister before this hour!"

Who acts: mother, thou · What happens: cry, see · To what, where: sister · 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 (mother, thou), 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	_	3 mother	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	3 mother	discourse
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
12	couldst	could	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 seen	nsubj
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 seen	cc
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cried	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sister	nmod:poss
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obj
19	before	before	ADP	_	21 hour	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 hour	det
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	mother and mother						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	could · perfect	thou	my sister			hour		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus

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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