Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 61
"Thou hast been a true friend, dear Thasus," said Queen Telephassa, kissing his forehead. "
Who acts: Thou, true friend · What happens: be, say, kiss · To what, where: true friend, forehead · 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 (Thou, true friend), 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 friend | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 friend | nsubj |
| 3 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 friend | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 friend | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 friend | det |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friend | amod |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Thasus | punct |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Thasus | amod |
| 10 | Thasus | Thasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Queen | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kissing | punct |
| 17 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 19 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kissing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | Thou | a true friend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a true friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kiss | gerund | a true friend not said here | friend's forehead | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-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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