Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 46
It would be the quickest way of rejoining them, to get upon the white bull's back.
Who acts: glimpse, quickest way · What happens: be, rejoin, get · To what, where: quickest way, Cadmus
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 (glimpse, quickest way), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 way | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 way | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | quickest | quick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 rejoining | mark |
| 8 | rejoining | rejoin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 way | acl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rejoining | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | parataxis |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bull | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bull | amod |
| 16 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 bull | case |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | glimpse | the quickest way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rejoin | gerund | the quickest way not said here | Cadmus | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | upon the white bull's back | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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