Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 61
The white spray rose in a shower over him and little Europa, and fell spattering down upon the water.
Who acts: white spray · What happens: rise, fall, spatter down · To what, where: shower, water
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 (white spray), 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:pg976:739): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spray | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spray | amod |
| 3 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 shower | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shower | det |
| 7 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rose | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Europa | cc |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Europa | amod |
| 12 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 him | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 16 | spattering | spatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 fell | xcomp |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 spattering | advmod |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spattering | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the white spray | a shower | over bull | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shower=Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the white spray not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spatter down | gerund | the white spray not said here | the water | down property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme upon water=Destination |
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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