Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 28
When the animal saw (for the bull had so much intelligence that it is really wonderful to think of), when he saw that Europa was no longer afraid of him, he grew overjoyed, and could hardly contain himself for delight.
Who acts: animal, it, bull, Europa · What happens: see, have, be, think, grow, overjoy · To what, where: much intelligence, 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 (animal, it, bull, Europa), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | advcl |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 bull | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bull | det |
| 8 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 intelligence | amod |
| 12 | intelligence | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 wonderful | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wonderful | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wonderful | cop |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 wonderful | advmod |
| 17 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 had | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 think | mark |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wonderful | csubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 think | obl |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 saw | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 afraid | mark |
| 27 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 afraid | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 afraid | cop |
| 29 | no | no | ADV | _ | 30 longer | advmod |
| 30 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 afraid | advmod |
| 31 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 saw | advcl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 afraid | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grew | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 grew | nsubj |
| 36 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | conj |
| 37 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 grew | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 contain | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 contain | cc |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 contain | aux |
| 41 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 42 contain | advmod |
| 42 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 grew | advcl |
| 43 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 42 contain | obj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 delight | case |
| 45 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 contain | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the animal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the animal not said here | much intelligence | for the bull | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intelligence=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | it | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | see | past | bull | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Europa | of bull; afraid, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | grow | past | bull | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | overjoy | participle | bull not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | contain | could | bull not said here | bull | for delight; hardly property | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/28/