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title: "Not I, for one," said Telephassa; although the poor queen, firmly a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Not I, for one," said Telephassa; although the poor queen, firmly as she spoke, was so travel-worn that she could hardly put her foot to the ground. " Who acts: one, Telephassa. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 36

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"Not I, for one," said Telephassa; although the poor queen, firmly as she spoke, was so travel-worn that she could hardly put her foot to the ground. "

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**Who acts:** one, Telephassa · **What happens:** say, speak, wear, put · **To what, where:** poor queen, foot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Telephassa), 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:pg976:11:36
# text = "Not I, for one," said Telephassa; although the poor queen, firmly as she spoke, was so travel-worn that she could hardly put her foot to the ground. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
12	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Telephassa | the poor queen *not said here* |  |  |  | firmly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | past · passive |  | the poor queen |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 4 | **put** | could | Telephassa | Telephassa's foot |  |  |  | to the ground; hardly *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal |

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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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