Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 48
"Have you seen a beautiful maiden, dressed like a king's daughter, and mounted on a snow-white bull, that gallops as swiftly as the wind?"
Who acts: you, white bull · What happens: see, dress, mount, gallop · To what, where: beautiful maiden
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 maiden | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maiden | amod |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dressed | punct |
| 9 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 maiden | acl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dressed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mounted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mounted | cc |
| 17 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 seen | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 bull | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bull | det |
| 20 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 white | obl |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 snow | punct |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bull | amod |
| 23 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mounted | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gallops | punct |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 gallops | nsubj |
| 26 | gallops | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bull | acl:relcl |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 swiftly | advmod |
| 28 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 26 gallops | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 wind | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wind | det |
| 31 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gallops | obl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · perfect | you | a beautiful maiden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dress in a quote | participle | a beautiful maiden not said here | like a king's daughter | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mount in a quote | participle | you not said here | on a white bull | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bull=Destination | ||||
| 4 | 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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