Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 100

But nobody could give them any tidings of Europa; nobody had seen a little girl dressed like a princess, and mounted on a snow-white bull, which galloped as swiftly as the wind.

Who acts: nobody, white bull · What happens: give, see, dress, mount, gallop · To what, where: tidings, people, little girl

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 (nobody, white bull), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 give	cc
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 give	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 tidings	det
7	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Europa	case
9	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tidings	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 seen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 give	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 girl	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 girl	amod
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obj
17	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 girl	acl
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 princess	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dressed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mounted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mounted	cc
23	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 seen	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	29 bull	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bull	det
26	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 white	obl
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 snow	punct
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bull	amod
29	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mounted	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 galloped	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 galloped	nsubj
32	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bull	acl:relcl
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 swiftly	advmod
34	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	32 galloped	advmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 wind	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wind	det
37	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 galloped	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	could	nobody	any tidings of Europa	people		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tiding=Theme
2	see	past · perfect	nobody	a little girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
3	dress	participle		a little girl not said here		like a princess	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mount	participle	nobody not said here			on a white bull	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bull=Destination
5	gallop	past	a white bull			as the wind; swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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