Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 41
And how it would surprise her brothers to see her riding across the green meadow!
Who acts: harm, Europa · What happens: surprise, see, ride · To what, where: brothers, riding, green meadow
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 (harm, 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 | _ | 5 surprise | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 surprise | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 surprise | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprise | aux |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 surprise | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 surprise | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 riding | nmod:poss |
| 11 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 meadow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meadow | det |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meadow | amod |
| 15 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | would | harm | Europa's brothers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brother=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | harm not said here | Europa's riding | the green meadow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer riding=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ride | Europa | nom riding «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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