Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 82

It was enough to bring tears into the eyes of bearded men to hear the melancholy tone with which she inquired of every stranger whether he could not tell her any news of the lost child.

Who acts: It, queen, man · What happens: be, bring, hear, inquire, not tell, lose · To what, where: tears, eyes, melancholy tone, news, queen · 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 (It, queen, man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 enough	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 enough	cop
3	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bring	mark
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 enough	xcomp
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eyes	det
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 men	case
11	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 men	amod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eyes	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hear	mark
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bring	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tone	det
16	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tone	compound
17	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hear	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 inquired	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 inquired	nsubj
21	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tone	acl:relcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 stranger	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 stranger	det
24	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 inquired	obl
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	29 tell	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 tell	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 tell	advmod
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 inquired	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 news	det
32	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 child	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 child	det
35	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 child	amod
36	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 news	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	It				enough property	tree rules
2	bring	to-infinitive		tears		the eyes of bearded men		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme into eye=Destination
3	hear	to-infinitive		the melancholy tone				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus
4	inquire speech: other	past	queen				with the melancholy tone; of every stranger	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of stranger=Recipient
5	not tell speech: assert	could	man	any news of the lost child	queen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient news=Topic
6	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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