Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 20

Nevertheless, it was the suddenness with which she had perceived the bull, rather than anything frightful in his appearance, that caused Europa so much alarm.

Who acts: mouth, fright · What happens: be, perceive, cause · To what, where: suddenness, bull, Europa

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 (mouth, fright), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	6 suddenness	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 suddenness	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 suddenness	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 suddenness	det
6	suddenness	suddenness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 perceived	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 perceived	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 perceived	aux
11	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 suddenness	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bull	det
13	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perceived	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 anything	punct
15	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	17 anything	cc
16	than	than	ADP	_	15 rather	fixed
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 perceived	parataxis
18	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 anything	amod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 appearance	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 appearance	nmod:poss
21	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 frightful	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caused	punct
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 caused	nsubj
24	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 anything	acl:relcl
25	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 caused	obj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 alarm	amod
28	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caused	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 suddenness	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mouth	the suddenness	nevertheless property	tree rules
2	perceive	past · perfect	fright	the bull	with the suddenness	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bull=Stimulus
3	cause	past		Europa		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer europa=Theme alarm=Eventuality

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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