Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 32

Once he galloped so far away that Europa feared lest she might never see him again; so, setting up her childish voice, called him back.

Who acts: bull, Europa · What happens: gallop, fear, not see, set up, call back · To what, where: bull, childish voice

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, 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 galloped	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 galloped	nsubj
3	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 galloped	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 feared	mark
8	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 feared	nsubj
9	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 galloped	advcl
10	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 feared	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 see	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 setting	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 setting	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 setting	punct
20	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 galloped	advcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 setting	compound:prt
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 voice	nmod:poss
23	childish	childish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 voice	amod
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 setting	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 setting	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 called	obj
28	back	back	ADV	_	26 called	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 galloped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	gallop	past	bull				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fear	past	Europa					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not see	might	Europa	bull		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	set up	gerund	bull not said here	Europa's childish voice				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient voice=Result
5	call back speech: assert	participle	bull not said here		bull			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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