Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 60

"Alas!" he cried, "I greatly fear that we shall never see one of their faces again."

Who acts: Eurylochus, we · What happens: cry, fear, not see · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eurylochus, we), 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	_	6 cried	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fear	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 fear	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fear	nsubj
10	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	11 fear	advmod
11	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 see	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 see	advmod
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fear	advcl
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 see	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 faces	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 faces	nmod:poss
20	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	16 see	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Eurylochus				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fear in a quote	present	Eurylochus			greatly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not see in a quote	shall	we	one of tears's faces	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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