Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 36

"Not I, for one," said Telephassa; although the poor queen, firmly as she spoke, was so travel-worn that she could hardly put her foot to the ground. "

Who acts: one, Telephassa · What happens: say, speak, wear, put · To what, where: poor queen, foot · 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 (one, Telephassa), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 one	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 one	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 worn	punct
12	although	although	SCONJ	_	26 worn	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 queen	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 queen	amod
15	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 worn	nsubj:pass
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct
17	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	20 spoke	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 spoke	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 spoke	nsubj
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 queen	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 worn	aux:pass
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 worn	advmod
24	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 worn	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 travel	punct
26	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 put	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 put	aux
30	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	31 put	advmod
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 worn	advcl
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 foot	nmod:poss
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 ground	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ground	det
36	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	past	Telephassa	the poor queen not said here	firmly property	tree rules
3	wear	past · passive		the poor queen		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
4	put	could	Telephassa	Telephassa's foot	to the ground; hardly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal

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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