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title: "Alas! my dear children," answered poor Queen Telephassa; weeping bi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Alas! my dear children," answered poor Queen Telephassa; weeping bitterly, "that is only another reason why I should go with you. Who acts: dear children, that. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 78

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"Alas! my dear children," answered poor Queen Telephassa; weeping bitterly, "that is only another reason why I should go with you.

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**Who acts:** dear children, that · **What happens:** answer, weep, be, go · **To what, where:** poor Queen, reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 children, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:10:78
# text = "Alas! my dear children," answered poor Queen Telephassa; weeping bitterly, "that is only another reason why I should go with you.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	csubj	_	_
10	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
23	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | my dear children |  | poor Queen |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality |
| 2 | **weep** | gerund | my dear children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | another reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | should | my dear children *= child* |  |  |  |  | with poor Queen *= queen* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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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