Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 49
"Softly, pretty bull, softly!" she said, rather frightened at what she had done. "
Who acts: princess · What happens: say, frighten, do · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bull | punct |
| 2 | Softly | softly | ADV | _ | 4 pretty | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Softly | punct |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bull | amod |
| 5 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 softly | punct |
| 7 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 5 bull | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 bull | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bull | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 frightened | punct |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 14 frightened | advmod |
| 14 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 what | case |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 frightened | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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