Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 29

He frisked about the meadow, now here, now there, making sprightly leaps, with as little effort as a bird expends in hopping from twig to twig.

Who acts: bull, bird · What happens: frisk, make, leap, expend, hop · To what, where: little effort, twig

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, bird), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 frisked	nsubj
2	frisked	frisk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 meadow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meadow	det
5	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frisked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 here	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 here	advmod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 frisked	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 here	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 making	punct
13	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 frisked	advcl
14	sprightly	sprightly	ADV	_	15 leaps	advmod
15	leaps	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 making	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 effort	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 effort	case
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 effort	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 effort	amod
20	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaps	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 expends	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bird	det
23	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 expends	nsubj
24	expends	expend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 effort	advcl
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 hopping	mark
26	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 expends	advcl
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 twig	case
28	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hopping	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 twig	case
30	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 twig	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 frisked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frisk	past	bull			about the meadow	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent
2	make	gerund	bull not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	leap	present	bull not said here	little effort		sprightly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme effort=Trajectory
4	expend	present	a bird				tree rules
5	hop	gerund	a bird not said here		twig to twig		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from twig=Trajectory

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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