Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 42

"Nor for me," said Cadmus, "while my dear mother pleases to go onward."

Who acts: me, dear mother · What happens: say, please, go · To what, where: Cadmus · 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 (me, dear mother), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Nor	nor	INTJ	_	4 me	discourse
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Cadmus	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Cadmus	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 pleases	mark
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
13	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mother	amod
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pleases	nsubj
15	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 pleases	xcomp
18	onward	onward	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	me	Cadmus		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cadmus=Topic
2	please in a quote	present	my dear mother			tree rules
3	go in a quote	to-infinitive	my dear mother not said here		onward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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