Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 66
Saying this, the poor queen shed tears, because it was a grievous trial to the mother's heart to confess that her hopes were growing faint.
Who acts: peace, hopes, heart · What happens: say, be, confess, grow, hope · To what, where: this, grievous trial · 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 (peace, hopes, heart), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tears | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tears | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tears | amod |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tears | compound |
| 7 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tears | compound |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Saying | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trial | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 trial | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trial | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trial | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 trial | det |
| 14 | grievous | grievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trial | amod |
| 15 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saying | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mother | det |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 mother | case |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trial | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 confess | mark |
| 22 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Saying | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 growing | mark |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 growing | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 growing | aux |
| 27 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 confess | ccomp |
| 28 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 growing | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | this | the poor queen shed tears obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | peace | a grievous trial | to the mother's heart | tree rules | |||
| 3 | confess | to-infinitive | vn confess-37.10 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | grow | past · progressive | heart's hopes | faint property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hope | heart | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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