Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 23
Never before did a bull have such bright and tender eyes, and such smooth horns of ivory, as this one.
Who acts: bull · What happens: not do, have · To what, where: such smooth horns, such bright eyes
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 (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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bull | det |
| 5 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tender | cc |
| 10 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bright | conj |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 horns | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 horns | cc |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horns | amod |
| 15 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horns | amod |
| 16 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ivory | case |
| 18 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horns | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | such smooth horns of ivory | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a bull | such bright eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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