Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 84

"We have seen no such wondrous sight," the people would reply; and very often, taking Cadmus aside, they whispered to him, "Is this stately and sad-looking woman your mother?

Who acts: We, people · What happens: see, reply, take, whisper, look, be · To what, where: such wondrous sight, Cadmus, sight, looking woman · 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 (We, people), 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	_	4 seen	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 sight	det
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sight	amod
7	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sight	amod
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reply	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 reply	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 reply	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reply	aux
14	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sight	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 taking	cc
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 often	advmod
18	often	often	ADV	_	20 taking	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct
20	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 seen	advcl
21	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obj
22	aside	aside	ADV	_	20 taking	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 whispered	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 whispered	nsubj
25	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 whispered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 woman	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 woman	punct
30	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 woman	cop
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 woman	det
32	stately	stately	ADV	_	36 looking	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 looking	cc
34	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 looking	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 sad	punct
36	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 woman	amod
37	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whispered	obl
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mother	nmod:poss
39	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 woman	conj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · perfect	We	no such wondrous sight			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
2	reply speech: assert	would	the people	no such wondrous sight not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sight=Topic
3	take	gerund	We not said here		Cadmus	aside, often property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cadmus=Destination
4	whisper speech: ask	past	people		sight		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	look in a quote	gerund				stately property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is a in a quote	present		this looking woman and your mother			tree rules

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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