Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 32

It is such a dreary length of time since the white bull carried off my sister Europa, that I have quite forgotten how she looked, and the tones of her voice, and, indeed, almost doubt whether such a little girl ever lived in the world.

Who acts: substance, white bull, I, sister, little girl · What happens: be, carry off, forget, look, live, intonate · To what, where: dreary length, sister, doubt, world, voice

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: who acts (substance, white bull, I, sister), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 length	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 length	cop
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 length	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 length	det
5	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 length	amod
6	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 time	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 length	nmod
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 carried	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bull	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bull	amod
12	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	nsubj
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 length	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 carried	compound:prt
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sister	nmod:poss
16	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obj
17	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sister	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 forgotten	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 forgotten	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 forgotten	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 forgotten	aux
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 forgotten	advmod
23	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 carried	conj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 looked	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 forgotten	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tones	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tones	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tones	det
30	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 length	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 voice	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 voice	nmod:poss
33	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tones	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 indeed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 indeed	cc
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 indeed	punct
37	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 length	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 doubt	punct
39	almost	almost	ADV	_	40 doubt	advmod
40	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 indeed	conj
41	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	47 lived	mark
42	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	45 girl	det:predet
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 girl	det
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 girl	amod
45	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lived	nsubj
46	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	47 lived	advmod
47	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 doubt	acl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 world	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 world	det
50	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lived	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 length	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	substance	such dreary length		time	indeed property	tree rules
2	carry off	past	the white bull	my sister				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
3	forget	present · perfect	I					tree rules
4	look	past	sister					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	live	past	such little girl	doubt not said here	the world	ever		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme doubt=Location
6	intonate			sister's voice				nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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