Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 33

And whether she once lived or no, I am convinced that she no longer survives, and that therefore it is the merest folly to waste our own lives and happiness in seeking her.

Who acts: girl, I, that · What happens: live, be, survive, waste, seek · To what, where: merest folly, own lives, girl

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 (girl, I, that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 lived	cc
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 lived	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 lived	advmod
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 convinced	cc
7	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 convinced	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 convinced	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 convinced	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 convinced	cop
11	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lived	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 survives	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 survives	nsubj
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 longer	advmod
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 survives	advmod
16	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 convinced	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 folly	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 folly	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 folly	nsubj
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	25 folly	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 folly	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 folly	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 folly	det
24	merest	mere	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 folly	amod
25	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 waste	mark
27	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 folly	acl
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lives	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lives	amod
30	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 waste	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 happiness	cc
32	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lives	conj
33	in	in	SCONJ	_	34 seeking	mark
34	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 waste	advcl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 seeking	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	girl		once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	I		convinced property	tree rules
3	survive	present	girl		long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	that	the merest folly	therefore property	tree rules
5	waste	to-infinitive	girl not said here	our own lives and happiness		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
6	seek	gerund	girl not said here	girl		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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