Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 27
Well, my stars! was there ever such a gentle, sweet, pretty, and amiable creature as this bull, and ever such a nice playmate for a little girl?
Who acts: stars · What happens: be
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 (stars), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 stars | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 stars | nmod:poss |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 there | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 stars | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | cop |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 there | advmod |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 creature | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 creature | det |
| 11 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 creature | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sweet | punct |
| 13 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gentle | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pretty | punct |
| 15 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 13 sweet | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 creature | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 creature | cc |
| 18 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 creature | amod |
| 19 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 there | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 bull | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 bull | det |
| 22 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 creature | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 playmate | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 playmate | cc |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 playmate | advmod |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 playmate | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 playmate | det |
| 28 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 playmate | amod |
| 29 | playmate | playmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 creature | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 girl | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 girl | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 girl | amod |
| 33 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 playmate | nmod |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | my stars | ever | there property | tree rules |
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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