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title: But when the mother asked whether her poor lost child had stopped to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the mother asked whether her poor lost child had stopped to drink out of the fountain, the naiad, with weeping eyes (for these water-nymphs had tears to spare for everybody's grief), would answer "No!" in a murmuring voice, which was just like the murmur of the stream. Who acts: mother, chi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 88

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But when the mother asked whether her poor lost child had stopped to drink out of the fountain, the naiad, with weeping eyes (for these water-nymphs had tears to spare for everybody's grief), would answer "No!" in a murmuring voice, which was just like the murmur of the stream.

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**Who acts:** mother, child, water nymphs, tears, murmuring voice · **What happens:** ask, lose, stop, drink out, have, spare · **To what, where:** fountain, tears, murmuring voice

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (mother, child, water nymphs, tears), 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:pg976:21:88
# text = But when the mother asked whether her poor lost child had stopped to drink out of the fountain, the naiad, with weeping eyes (for these water-nymphs had tears to spare for everybody's grief), would answer "No!" in a murmuring voice, which was just like the murmur of the stream.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	naiad	naiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
33	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	43	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
55	just	just	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
56	like	like	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	appos	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | past · perfect | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **drink out** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the fountain and the naiad and weeping eyes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | this water nymphs | tears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **spare** | to-infinitive | tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for everybody's grief | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **answer** *speech: assert* | would | child *not said here* |  |  | a murmuring voice |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | past | a murmuring voice |  |  |  |  | like the murmur; of the stream | tree rules |

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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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