Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 40

But then she considered in her wise little head that there could be no possible harm in taking just one gallop on the back of this docile and friendly animal, who would certainly set her down the very instant she desired it.

Who acts: Europa, possible harm, docile animal · What happens: consider, take, set down, desire · To what, where: wise little head, one gallop, back, Europa, gallop

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, possible harm, docile animal), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 considered	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 considered	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 considered	nsubj
4	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 head	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 considered	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 be	nsubj
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 be	expl
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 head	acl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 harm	det
15	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 harm	amod
16	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 be	nsubj
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 taking	mark
18	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 harm	acl
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 one	advmod
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 gallop	nummod
21	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 back	det
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	30 animal	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 animal	det
27	docile	docile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 animal	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 friendly	cc
29	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 docile	conj
30	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 back	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 set	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 set	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 set	aux
34	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	35 set	advmod
35	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 animal	acl:relcl
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 set	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 set	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 instant	det
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 instant	advmod
40	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 set	conj
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 desired	nsubj
42	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 instant	ccomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 desired	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consider	past	Europa		Europa's wise little head	then		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
2	take	gerund	no possible harm not said here	one gallop	the back of this docile animal			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gallop=Theme on back=Destination
3	set down	would	this docile animal	Europa			certainly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result
4	desire	past	Europa	gallop				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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