Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 65

When they reached the margin of the sand, the treacherous animal was already far away in the wide blue sea, with only his snowy head and tail emerging, and poor little Europa between them, stretching out one hand towards her dear brothers, while she grasped the bull's ivory horn with the other.

Who acts: legs, treacherous animal, snowy head, poor little Europa, Europa · What happens: reach, be, emerge, stretch out, grasp · To what, where: margin, wide blue sea, one hand, ivory horn

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 (legs, treacherous animal, snowy head, poor little 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 margin	det
5	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sand	det
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 margin	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 away	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 animal	det
11	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animal	amod
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 away	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 away	cop
14	already	already	ADV	_	16 away	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 away	advmod
16	away	away	ADV	_	5 margin	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
19	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sea	amod
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sea	amod
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 away	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 head	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 head	case
24	only	only	ADV	_	27 head	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
26	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 head	amod
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tail	cc
29	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 head	conj
30	emerging	emerge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 head	acl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stretching	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stretching	cc
33	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Europa	amod
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Europa	amod
35	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 stretching	nsubj
36	between	between	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 Europa	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stretching	punct
39	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 reached	advcl
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 stretching	compound:prt
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 hand	nummod
42	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stretching	obj
43	towards	towards	ADP	_	46 brothers	case
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 brothers	nmod:poss
45	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 brothers	amod
46	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 stretching	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 grasped	punct
48	while	while	SCONJ	_	50 grasped	mark
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 grasped	nsubj
50	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 stretching	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 bull	det
52	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 horn	nmod:poss
53	's	's	PART	_	52 bull	case
54	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 horn	amod
55	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 grasped	obj
56	with	with	ADP	_	58 other	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 other	det
58	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 horn	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	legs = leg	the margin of the sand		with bull's snowy head and tail	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent margin=Theme
2	is	past	the treacherous animal		the wide blue sea	away, far property	tree rules
3	emerge	gerund	bull's snowy head and tail not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stretch out	gerund	poor little Europa between legs	one hand		towards Europa's dear brothers	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards brother=Recipient
5	grasp	past	Europa	the bull's ivory horn		with the other	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horn=Theme with other=Instrument

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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