Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 59
And what do you think the snowy bull did next?
Who acts: you, snowy bull · What happens: think, do · 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 (you, snowy bull), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 think | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 think | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bull | det |
| 7 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bull | amod |
| 8 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 9 did | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the snowy bull | next property | vn act-114-1 «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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