Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 61
"That, no doubt, will be a great comfort to both of us," quoth the old woman. "
Who acts: That, doubt · What happens: doubt, be, quoth · To what, where: great comfort, old woman
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 (That, doubt), 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 | _ | 11 comfort | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 doubt | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 doubt | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 doubt | det |
| 5 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comfort | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 doubt | punct |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 comfort | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 comfort | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 comfort | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 comfort | amod |
| 11 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 both | case |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 comfort | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 both | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quoth | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 quoth | punct |
| 18 | quoth | quoth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 comfort | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quoth | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 comfort | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 comfort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt in a quote | That | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | future | no doubt | a great comfort | to both | tree rules | |||
| 3 | quoth | infinitive | no doubt not said here | the old woman | 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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