Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 17
Come and drive away this bull!"
Who acts: you · What happens: come, drive away · To what, where: bull
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 (you), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 drive | cc |
| 3 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drive | advmod |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 bull | det |
| 6 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drive | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drive away | infinitive | you not said here | this bull | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=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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