Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 54
The gentle and innocent creature (for who could possibly doubt that he was so?) pranced round among the children as sportively as a kitten.
Who acts: gentle creature, Phoenix · What happens: doubt, be, prance · To what, where: gentle creature
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 (gentle creature, Phoenix), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 2 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 innocent | cc |
| 4 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gentle | conj |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 doubt | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 doubt | mark |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 doubt | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 doubt | aux |
| 10 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 11 doubt | advmod |
| 11 | doubt | doubt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 creature | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 so | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 so | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 doubt | advcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 doubt | punct |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 doubt | punct |
| 18 | pranced | prance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 creature | acl |
| 19 | round | round | ADV | _ | 18 pranced | advmod |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 children | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 children | det |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pranced | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 sportively | advmod |
| 24 | sportively | sportively | ADV | _ | 27 kitten | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 kitten | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 kitten | det |
| 27 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pranced | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt | could | the gentle creature | possibly property | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Phoenix | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prance | participle | the gentle creature not said here | among the children; as a kitten; round property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among child=Trajectory |
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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