Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 67
Nothing more was ever seen of the white bull--nothing more of the beautiful child.
What happens: see · To what, where: Nothing
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: 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Nothing | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bull | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bull | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bull | amod |
| 9 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 nothing | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 bull | appos |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 nothing | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 child | amod |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | Nothing | ever | of the white bull | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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