Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 51

Having got the child on his back, the animal gave a leap into the air, and came down so like a feather that Europa did not know when his hoofs touched the ground.

Who acts: animal, Europa, hoofs · What happens: have, get, give, come down, not know, touch · To what, where: child, back, leap, air, ground · 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 (animal, Europa, hoofs), 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	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animal	det
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 leap	det
13	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 feather	advmod
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 feather	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 feather	det
24	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 know	mark
26	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 know	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 know	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 know	advmod
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 feather	advcl
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 touched	advmod
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hoofs	nmod:poss
32	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 touched	nsubj
33	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 know	ccomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ground	det
35	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 touched	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	past		the child	bull's back		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme on back=Source
3	give	past	the animal	a leap	the air		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme
4	come down	past				down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not know	past · do-support	Europa				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	touch	past	bull's hoofs	the ground			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-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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