Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 109
"It matters little now," answered Telephassa, and there was a smile upon her face. "
Who acts: It, Telephassa, smile · What happens: matter, answer, be · 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 (It, Telephassa, smile), 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 matters | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 matters | nsubj |
| 3 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 now | advmod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 matters | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 matters | parataxis |
| 9 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smile | det |
| 15 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smile | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 matters | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter in a quote | present | It | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Telephassa | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | past | a smile upon smile's face | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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