Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 2
A snow-white bull with a little princess on his back!
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bull | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 white | obl |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 snow | punct |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bull | amod |
| 5 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 princess | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 princess | amod |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bull | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 princess | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 bull | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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