Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 40

At noon, at night, journeying onward, sitting down to rest, her childish voice is always in my ears, calling, 'Mother! mother!'

Who acts: childish voice · What happens: journey, sit down, rest, be, call · To what, where: ears, Mother · 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 (childish voice), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mother	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noon	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 journeying	punct
7	journeying	journey	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 noon	appos
8	onward	onward	ADV	_	7 journeying	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 journeying	conj
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 sitting	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rest	mark
13	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sitting	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ears	punct
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 voice	nmod:poss
16	childish	childish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 voice	amod
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ears	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ears	cop
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 ears	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 ears	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ears	nmod:poss
22	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rest	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 calling	punct
24	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 journeying	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Mother	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 Mother	punct
27	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 calling	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 noon	punct
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 mother	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	journey	gerund				onward property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	gerund				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest	to-infinitive					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	Europa's childish voice		my ears	always property	tree rules
5	call	gerund		Mother			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient

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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