Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 53
Europa screamed with delight; and Phoenix, Cilix, and Cadmus stood gaping at the spectacle of their sister mounted on a white bull, not knowing whether to be frightened or to wish the same good luck for themselves.
Who acts: Europa, Phoenix · What happens: scream, stand, gape, mount, not know, frighten · To what, where: sister, same good luck · 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 (Europa, Phoenix), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:731): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 screamed | nsubj |
| 2 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 delight | case |
| 4 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 screamed | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 7 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cilix | punct |
| 9 | Cilix | Cilix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Phoenix | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cadmus | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Cadmus | cc |
| 12 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Phoenix | conj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 screamed | conj |
| 14 | gaping | gape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | xcomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 spectacle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spectacle | det |
| 17 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gaping | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sister | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sister | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spectacle | nmod |
| 21 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sister | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 bull | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bull | det |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bull | amod |
| 25 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mounted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 knowing | punct |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 knowing | advmod |
| 28 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 gaping | advcl |
| 29 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 32 frightened | mark |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 frightened | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 frightened | aux:pass |
| 32 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 knowing | ccomp |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 wish | cc |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 wish | mark |
| 35 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 frightened | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 luck | det |
| 37 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 luck | amod |
| 38 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 luck | amod |
| 39 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wish | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 themselves | case |
| 41 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 wish | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | Europa | with delight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with delight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Phoenix and Cilix and Cadmus | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gape | gerund | Phoenix and Cilix and Cadmus not said here | at the spectacle of Cadmus's sister | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spectacle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mount | participle | Cadmus's sister not said here | on a white bull | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bull=Destination | ||||
| 5 | not know | gerund | Phoenix and Cilix and Cadmus not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | frighten | to-infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 7 | wish | to-infinitive | the same good luck | for Cadmus | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot luck=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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