Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 39
At the first thought of such a thing, Europa drew back.
Who acts: Europa · What happens: draw back, think · To what, where: first thought, thing
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 thought | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thought | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 thought | amod |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thing | case |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 thing | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 10 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 drew | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | past | Europa | the first thought of such thing | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think | such thing | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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