Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 21

On looking at him more attentively, she began to see that he was a beautiful animal, and even fancied a particularly amiable expression in his face.

Who acts: fright, bull · What happens: look, begin, see, be, fancy · To what, where: beautiful animal, amiable expression, face · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fright, 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 looking	mark
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 began	advcl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looking	obl
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 attentively	advmod
6	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	2 looking	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 looking	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 animal	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 animal	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 animal	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 animal	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animal	amod
17	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fancied	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fancied	cc
20	even	even	ADV	_	21 fancied	advmod
21	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 expression	det
23	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	24 amiable	advmod
24	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 expression	amod
25	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fancied	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 face	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 face	nmod:poss
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fancied	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	fright not said here			at bull; attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	begin	past	fright				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	see	to-infinitive	fright not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	bull	a beautiful animal			tree rules
5	fancy	past	fright not said here	a amiable expression	bull's face		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer expression=Stimulus

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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