Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 31

And nothing else would it say, but only, "Peep, peep, pe--weep!" in a melancholy cadence, and over and over and over again.

Who acts: nothing · What happens: say · To what, where: Peep, melancholy cadence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 say	nsubj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 nothing	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Peep	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 Peep	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 Peep	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Peep	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Peep	punct
12	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 peep	punct
14	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Peep	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pe	punct
16	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Peep	conj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 weep	punct
18	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Peep	appos
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 weep	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 weep	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 cadence	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cadence	det
23	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cadence	compound
24	cadence	cadence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 over	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 over	cc
27	over	over	ADV	_	6 say	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 over	cc
29	over	over	ADV	_	27 over	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 again	cc
31	over	over	ADV	_	32 again	advmod
32	again	again	ADV	_	27 over	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	nothing	Peep and peep and pe		a melancholy cadence			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent peep=Theme in cadence=Manner

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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