Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 83

"Have you seen a little girl--no, no, I mean a young maiden of full growth--passing by this way, mounted on a snow-white bull, which gallops as swiftly as the wind?"

Who acts: you, man, white bull · What happens: see, mean, pass, mount, gallop · To what, where: little girl, young maiden

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 (you, man, white bull), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct
2	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 seen	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
11	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	14 mean	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 no	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 mean	nsubj
14	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 maiden	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 maiden	amod
17	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mean	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 growth	case
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 growth	amod
20	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 maiden	nmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 passing	punct
22	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 mean	advcl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 passing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mounted	punct
27	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 passing	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	33 bull	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bull	det
30	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 white	obl
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 snow	punct
32	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bull	amod
33	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mounted	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gallops	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 gallops	nsubj
36	gallops	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 bull	acl:relcl
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 swiftly	advmod
38	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	36 gallops	advmod
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 wind	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wind	det
41	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gallops	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · perfect	you	a little girl		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
2	mean in a quote	present	man	a young maiden of full growth		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic
3	pass in a quote	gerund	man not said here		by this way	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location
4	mount in a quote	participle	man not said here		on a white bull	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bull=Destination
5	gallop in a quote	present	a white bull		as the wind; swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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