Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 25

Thus, frightened as she at first was, you might by and by have seen Europa stroking the bull's forehead with her small white hand, and taking the garlands off her own head to hang them on his neck and ivory horns.

What happens: frighten, be, see, stroke, take, hang · To what, where: Europa, forehead, garlands, own head, neck

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: 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 frightened	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 she	case
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 frightened	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 frightened	advmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 first	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 might	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 might	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 might	flat
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seen	cc
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 seen	mark
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 might	conj
17	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obj
18	stroking	stroke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 seen	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bull	det
20	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 forehead	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 bull	case
22	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stroking	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 hand	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hand	amod
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hand	amod
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stroking	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 taking	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 taking	cc
30	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 seen	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 garlands	det
32	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 taking	obj
33	off	off	ADP	_	36 head	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 head	amod
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taking	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 hang	mark
38	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 taking	advcl
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 hang	obj
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 neck	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 neck	nmod:poss
42	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hang	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 horns	cc
44	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 horns	compound
45	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 neck	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	participle			as child; thus property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past			first property	tree rules
3	see	present · perfect	Europa			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer europa=Stimulus
4	stroke	gerund	the bull's forehead		with child's small white hand	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent forehead=Experiencer with hand=Instrument
5	take	gerund	the garlands	child's own head		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent garland=Theme off head=Initial_Location
6	hang	to-infinitive	garlands = garland	bull's neck and ivory horns		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on neck=Destination

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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