Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 6
Europa, who was a little wearied with playing all day long, did not chase the butterfly with her brothers, but sat still where they had left her, and closed her eyes.
Who acts: Europa, brothers · What happens: weary, play, not chase, sit, leave, close · To what, where: Europa, butterfly, eyes
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, brothers), 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:pg976:688): 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 | 16 chase | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wearied | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wearied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wearied | aux:pass |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wearied | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Europa | acl:relcl |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 playing | mark |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wearied | advcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 playing | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 day | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wearied | punct |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 chase | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 chase | advmod |
| 16 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 butterfly | det |
| 18 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chase | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 brothers | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 chase | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sat | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 sat | cc |
| 24 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 chase | conj |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 sat | advmod |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 left | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 left | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 left | aux |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 sat | advcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 left | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 closed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 closed | cc |
| 33 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 chase | conj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 closed | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 chase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weary | past · passive | Europa | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | day | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not chase | past · do-support | Europa | the butterfly | with Europa's brothers | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Theme | |||
| 4 | sit | past | Europa not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · perfect | brothers = brother | Europa | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | close | past | Europa not said here | Europa's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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