Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 37
And not only did the bull bend his neck, he absolutely knelt down at her feet, and made such intelligent nods, and other inviting gestures, that Europa understood what he meant just as well as if he had put it in so many words.
Who acts: bull, Europa · What happens: not bend, kneel down, make, invite, understand, mean · To what, where: neck, feet, such intelligent nods, truth, many words · 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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bend | cc |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 bend | advmod |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 bend | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bend | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bull | det |
| 6 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bend | nsubj |
| 7 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bend | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knelt | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knelt | nsubj |
| 12 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 13 knelt | advmod |
| 13 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bend | parataxis |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 knelt | compound:prt |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 knelt | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knelt | conj |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 nods | amod |
| 22 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 nods | amod |
| 23 | nods | nod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gestures | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gestures | cc |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 gestures | amod |
| 27 | inviting | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 gestures | amod |
| 28 | gestures | gesture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 understood | punct |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 understood | mark |
| 31 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 understood | nsubj |
| 32 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | conj |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 meant | obj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 meant | nsubj |
| 35 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 understood | ccomp |
| 36 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 as | advmod |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 35 meant | advmod |
| 38 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 as | fixed |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 put | mark |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 put | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 put | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 put | aux |
| 43 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 meant | advcl |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 put | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 words | case |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 47 many | advmod |
| 47 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 words | amod |
| 48 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 put | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bend | past · do-support | the bull | bull's neck | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material | ||||
| 2 | kneel down | past | bull | Europa's feet | absolutely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | |||
| 3 | make | past | bull not said here | such intelligent nods | other inviting gestures obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nod=Product | |||
| 4 | invite | gerund | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | understand | past | Europa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | mean | past | bull | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 7 | put | past · perfect | bull | truth | many words | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in word=Destination |
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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