Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 35
And then it was delightful to witness the gratitude of this amiable bull, and how he was so full of joy and thankfulness that he capered higher than ever.
Who acts: motion, bull · What happens: be, caper
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 (motion, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 delightful | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 delightful | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 delightful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delightful | cop |
| 5 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 witness | mark |
| 7 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delightful | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gratitude | det |
| 9 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 witness | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bull | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 bull | det |
| 12 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bull | amod |
| 13 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gratitude | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 full | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 full | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 full | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 full | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 full | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 full | advmod |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 delightful | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thankfulness | cc |
| 24 | thankfulness | thankfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 joy | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 capered | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 capered | nsubj |
| 27 | capered | caper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 full | advcl |
| 28 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 capered | advmod |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 ever | case |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 higher | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | motion | then | delightful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | bull | of joy and thankfulness; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | caper | past | bull | vn run-51.3.2 «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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