Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 26

Then she pulled up some blades of grass, and he ate them out of her hand, not as if he were hungry, but because he wanted to be friends with the child, and took pleasure in eating what she had touched.

Who acts: child, bull · What happens: pull up, eat, not be, want, be, take · To what, where: blades, hand, friends, pleasure

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 (child, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 pulled	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pulled	compound:prt
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 blades	det
6	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pulled	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 grass	case
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blades	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ate	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ate	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 hand	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hungry	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 hungry	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 hungry	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 hungry	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hungry	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hungry	cop
24	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ate	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wanted	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 wanted	cc
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 wanted	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wanted	nsubj
29	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	32 friends	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 friends	cop
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wanted	xcomp
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 child	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 child	det
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 friends	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 took	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 took	cc
38	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
39	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 took	obj
40	in	in	SCONJ	_	41 eating	mark
41	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 took	advcl
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 eating	obj
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 touched	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 touched	aux
45	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 what	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	past	child	some blades of grass		then		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Theme
2	eat	past	bull	blades = blade	child's hand			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	bull				hungry property	tree rules
4	want	past	bull					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	bull not said here	friends			with the child	tree rules
6	take	past	child not said here	pleasure				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme
7	eat	gerund	child not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
8	touch	past · perfect	child					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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