Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 36
He came running, and bowed his head before Europa, as if he knew her to be a king's daughter, or else recognized the important truth that a little girl is everybody's queen.
Who acts: bull, important truth · What happens: come, run, bow, know, be, recognize · To what, where: head, Europa, daughter, important truth, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
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, important truth), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bowed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bowed | cc |
| 6 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bowed | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 Europa | case |
| 10 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bowed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 knew | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 knew | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bowed | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knew | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 daughter | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 daughter | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 king | case |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 recognized | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 recognized | cc |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 26 recognized | advmod |
| 26 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 truth | det |
| 28 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 truth | amod |
| 29 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 recognized | obj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 queen | nsubj |
| 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 | 37 queen | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 queen | cop |
| 35 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 queen | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 everybody | case |
| 37 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 truth | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | bull | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | bull not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bow | past | bull's head | before Europa | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 4 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | bull | Europa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | a king's daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | recognize | past | bull not said here | the important truth | else property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | is a | present | the important truth | everybody's queen | 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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