Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 92

"As long as you please, dear mother," answered Cadmus.

Who acts: you, Cadmus · What happens: mother, answer · 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 (you, Cadmus), 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	_	12 answered	punct
2	As	as	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 answered	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 mother	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 mother	nsubj
6	please	please	INTJ	_	9 mother	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mother	amod
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mother in a quote		you						tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	Cadmus					long property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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