Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 42

"Ah, well, then," said the old woman, still with the same cracked voice, "if that is all your business, you need not be in a very great hurry.

Who acts: old woman, that, you · What happens: say, crack, be, not be · To what, where: business, great hurry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (old woman, that, you), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	9 said	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 then	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 then	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 voice	punct
14	still	still	ADV	_	19 voice	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 voice	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 voice	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 voice	amod
18	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 voice	amod
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 voice	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 business	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 business	mark
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 business	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 business	cop
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 business	det:predet
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 business	nmod:poss
27	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hurry	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 hurry	nsubj
30	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 hurry	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 hurry	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 hurry	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 hurry	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 hurry	det
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 great	advmod
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hurry	amod
37	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 business	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old woman			then	with the same cracked voice	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	crack	participle						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	that	your business and a great hurry				tree rules
4	not is in a quote	present	you		a great hurry			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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