Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 65

For--and it is the first time I have owned it to myself--I begin to question whether we shall ever find my beloved daughter in this world."

Who acts: peace, I, we · What happens: be, own, begin, question, find · To what, where: peace, myself, beloved daughter, world

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 (peace, I, we), 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	For	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 time	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 time	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 time	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 time	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begin	obl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 owned	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 owned	aux
11	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 time	acl:relcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 owned	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 myself	case
14	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 owned	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 time	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 begin	nsubj
17	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 question	mark
19	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begin	xcomp
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 find	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 find	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 find	advmod
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 question	advcl
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
26	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 daughter	amod
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 begin	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	present	peace				for the first time	tree rules
2	own	present · perfect	I	peace	myself			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	begin	present	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	question speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	find	shall	we	my beloved daughter		this world	ever	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic

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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