Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 55

Sad, sad it was to hear them asking of every passer-by if he had seen Europa, so long after the white bull had carried her away.

Who acts: Cadmus, man, white bull · What happens: be, hear, ask, see, carry away · To what, where: Cadmus, Europa

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 (Cadmus, man, white bull), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:829): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sad	punct
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sad	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sad	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sad	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sad	csubj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	obj
9	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hear	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 passer	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 passer	det
12	passer	passer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asking	obl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 by	punct
14	by	by	ADV	_	12 passer	advmod
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 seen	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 asking	ccomp
19	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 seen	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 long	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 asking	advmod
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	28 carried	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bull	det
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bull	amod
26	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carried	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 carried	aux
28	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 long	advcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carried	obj
30	away	away	ADV	_	28 carried	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			sad property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	hear	to-infinitive		Cadmus		tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	Cadmus not said here		of every passer; long property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of passer=Recipient clause=Topic
5	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	man	Europa		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer europa=Stimulus
6	carry away	past · perfect	the white bull	Europa	away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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