Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 44

"Dear mother Aethra," he exclaimed, "I never felt half so strong as now!

Who acts: Dear mother · What happens: exclaim, not feel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (Dear mother), 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	_	3 mother	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exclaimed	nsubj
4	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mother	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 exclaimed	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 exclaimed	nsubj
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 felt	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 felt	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 felt	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 felt	advmod
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 exclaimed	conj
14	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 strong	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 strong	advmod
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 felt	xcomp
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 now	case
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 strong	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	Dear mother						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	not feel in a quote	past	Dear mother = mother					strong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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