Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 8

But the pretty child, if she slept at all, could not have slept more than a moment, when she heard something trample on the grass, not far from her, and, peeping out from the heap of flowers, beheld a snow-white bull.

Who acts: child, flowers · What happens: sleep, not sleep, hear, peep out, behold · To what, where: pretty child, all, something trample, grass, white bull

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 (child, flowers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 slept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slept	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 slept	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slept	nsubj
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 child	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 slept	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 slept	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 slept	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 slept	aux
15	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 slept	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 moment	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 more	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 heard	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 heard	nsubj
23	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 slept	parataxis
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 trample	compound
25	trample	trample	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 grass	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grass	det
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 far	punct
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 far	advmod
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 heard	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 far	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 peeping	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 peeping	cc
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 peeping	punct
37	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 heard	advcl
38	out	out	ADP	_	37 peeping	compound:prt
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 heap	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 heap	det
41	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 peeping	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 flowers	case
43	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 heap	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 beheld	punct
45	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 flowers	acl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 bull	det
47	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 white	obl
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 snow	punct
49	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 bull	amod
50	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 beheld	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sleep a condition, not said to happen	past	child	the pretty child not said here	all		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	not sleep	could · perfect · passive		the pretty child			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hear	past	child	something trample	the grass	far property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trample=Stimulus
4	peep out	gerund	child not said here			from the heap of flowers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from heap=Theme
5	behold	participle	flowers not said here	a white bull			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bull=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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