Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 48

Making one bound (for this little princess was as active as a squirrel), there sat Europa on the beautiful bull, holding an ivory horn in each hand, lest she should fall off.

Who acts: little princess, princess · What happens: make, be, sit, hold, fall off · To what, where: one bound, Europa, ivory horn, hand

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 (little princess, princess), 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	Making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 active	csubj
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bound	nummod
3	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 active	punct
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 active	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 princess	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 princess	amod
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 active	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 active	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 active	advmod
11	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 squirrel	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 squirrel	det
14	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 active	obl
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 active	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 sat	expl
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 active	parataxis
19	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 bull	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bull	det
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bull	amod
23	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 holding	punct
25	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sat	advcl
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 horn	det
27	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 horn	amod
28	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 holding	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 hand	case
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 hand	det
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 holding	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fall	punct
33	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	36 fall	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fall	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 fall	aux
36	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sat	conj
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 fall	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 active	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		one bound			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bound=Product
2	is	past	this little princess			as a squirrel; active property	tree rules
3	sit	past		Europa	there	on the beautiful bull	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent europa=Theme on bull=Location
4	hold	gerund		a ivory horn	each hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horn=Theme in hand=Location
5	fall off	should	princess				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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