Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 24

And the bull ran little races, and capered sportively around the child; so that she quite forgot how big and strong he was, and, from the gentleness and playfulness of his actions, soon came to consider him as innocent a creature as a pet lamb.

Who acts: bull, child, gentleness · What happens: run, caper, forget, be, come, consider · To what, where: little races, 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 (bull, child, gentleness), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 ran	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bull	det
3	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 races	amod
6	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 capered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 capered	cc
9	capered	caper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
10	sportively	sportively	ADV	_	9 capered	advmod
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 child	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 capered	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 forgot	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 forgot	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 forgot	nsubj
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 forgot	advmod
19	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 big	advmod
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forgot	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 strong	cc
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 big	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 was	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 big	cop
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 came	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 came	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gentleness	punct
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 gentleness	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gentleness	det
31	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	nsubj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 playfulness	cc
33	playfulness	playfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gentleness	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 actions	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 actions	nmod:poss
36	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 playfulness	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gentleness	punct
38	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 came	advmod
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 consider	mark
41	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 came	xcomp
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 consider	obj
43	as	as	ADP	_	44 innocent	case
44	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 creature	amod
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 creature	det
46	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 consider	obj
47	as	as	ADP	_	50 lamb	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 lamb	det
49	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 lamb	compound
50	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 consider	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	the bull	little races		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory
2	caper	past	the bull not said here		around the child; sportively property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around child=Trajectory
3	forget	past	child			tree rules
4	is	past			big property	tree rules
5	be					tree rules
6	come	past	the gentleness and playfulness of bull's actions		soon property	tree rules
7	consider	to-infinitive	the gentleness and playfulness of bull's actions not said here	bull	as a pet lamb	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme creature=Attribute
8	act		bull			nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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