Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 13

But, for my part, I will still go in quest of my poor child."

Who acts: part, poor child · What happens: go, quest · To what, where: quest

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 (part, poor child), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 part	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 part	nmod:poss
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 quest	case
12	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 child	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 child	nmod:poss
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 child	amod
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quest	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	my part			quest of my poor child	still		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in quest=Location
2	quest		my poor child						nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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