Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 81

But for all her weakness and weariness, she would not be persuaded to give up the search.

Who acts: queen · What happens: not persuade, give up · To what, where: queen, search

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 (queen), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 persuaded	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 weakness	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 weakness	det:predet
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 weakness	nmod:poss
5	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 persuaded	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 weariness	cc
7	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weakness	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 weakness	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 persuaded	nsubj:pass
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 persuaded	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 persuaded	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 persuaded	aux:pass
13	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 persuaded	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 give	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 search	det
18	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not persuade	would · passive		queen				for queen's weakness and weariness	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	give up	to-infinitive	queen not said here	the search					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Source

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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