Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 38

In the depths of my heart, little Europa is still the rosy child who ran to gather flowers so many years ago.

Who acts: little Europa, rosy child · What happens: be, run, gather · To what, where: rosy child, flowers

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 (little Europa, rosy child), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 depths	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 depths	det
3	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 heart	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heart	nmod:poss
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depths	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 child	punct
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Europa	amod
9	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 child	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 child	cop
11	still	still	ADV	_	14 child	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
13	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 child	amod
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depths	conj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 ran	nsubj
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 child	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 gather	mark
18	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ran	xcomp
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gather	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 many	advmod
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 years	amod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ago	obl:unmarked
23	ago	ago	ADV	_	18 gather	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 depths	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	little Europa	the rosy child	still		tree rules
2	run	past	the rosy child				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	gather	to-infinitive	the rosy child not said here	flowers		ago property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme

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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