Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 56

As the bull wheeled about to take another gallop across the meadow, the child waved her hand, and said, "Good-bye," playfully pretending that she was now bound on a distant journey, and might not see her brothers again for nobody could tell how long.

Who acts: child, nobody · What happens: wheel about, take, wave, say, pretend, bind · To what, where: gallop, meadow, hand, child, distant journey, brothers · 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 (child, nobody), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 bull	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bull	det
3	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wheeled	obl
4	wheeled	wheel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 wheeled	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wheeled	advcl
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 gallop	det
9	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 meadow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meadow	det
12	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 waved	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waved	nsubj
16	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wheeled	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waved	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 waved	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bye	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 bye	punct
24	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bye	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Good	punct
26	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pretending	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 pretending	punct
29	playfully	playfully	ADV	_	30 pretending	advmod
30	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 said	advcl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 bound	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bound	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 bound	aux:pass
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 bound	advmod
35	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 pretending	ccomp
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 journey	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 journey	det
38	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 journey	amod
39	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bound	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 see	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 see	cc
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 see	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 see	advmod
44	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wheeled	conj
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 brothers	nmod:poss
46	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 see	obj
47	again	again	ADV	_	44 see	advmod
48	for	for	SCONJ	_	51 tell	mark
49	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	51 tell	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 tell	aux
51	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 see	advcl
52	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	53 long	advmod
53	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 tell	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wheeled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wheel about	past					as the bull; about property	vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	to-infinitive		another gallop	the meadow			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gallop=Theme
3	wave	past	the child	child's hand				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the child not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	pretend	gerund	the child not said here				playfully property	tree rules
6	bind	past · passive		child	a distant journey	now		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	not see	might		child's brothers		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
8	tell speech: assert	could	nobody				long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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