Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 55
Europa all the while looked down upon her brothers, nodding and laughing, but yet with a sort of stateliness in her rosy little face.
Who acts: Europa · What happens: look down, nod, laugh, sort · To what, where: stateliness, rosy little face
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), 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 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 while | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Europa | appos |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 brothers | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nodding | punct |
| 11 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 looked | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laughing | cc |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 nodding | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sort | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 sort | cc |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 sort | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 sort | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sort | det |
| 19 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 stateliness | case |
| 21 | stateliness | stateliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sort | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 face | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 face | nmod:poss |
| 24 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 face | amod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 face | amod |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sort | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | Europa | upon Europa's brothers; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon brother=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nod | gerund | Europa not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | Europa not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sort | stateliness | Europa's rosy little face | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient in=place |
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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