Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 7

Among the rest, a mariner affirmed, that, many years before, in a distant country, he had heard a rumor about a white bull, which came swimming across the sea with a child on his back, dressed up in flowers that were blighted by the sea water.

Who acts: mariner, that, white bull, sea water · What happens: affirm, year, hear, come, swim, dress up · To what, where: rumor, distant country, sea, flowers

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 (mariner, that, white bull, sea water), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 rest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 affirmed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rest	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mariner	det
6	mariner	mariner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 affirmed	nsubj
7	affirmed	affirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 years	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 years	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 years	punct
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 affirmed	obl:unmarked
13	before	before	ADV	_	12 years	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 country	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 country	det
17	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 country	amod
18	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 country	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	aux
22	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 affirmed	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rumor	det
24	rumor	rumor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
25	about	about	ADP	_	28 bull	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bull	det
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bull	amod
28	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bull	acl:relcl
32	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 came	xcomp
33	across	across	ADP	_	35 sea	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sea	det
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 swimming	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 child	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 child	det
38	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 swimming	obl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 back	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 back	nmod:poss
41	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 child	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dressed	punct
43	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 heard	conj
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 dressed	compound:prt
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 flowers	case
46	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 dressed	obl
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 blighted	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 blighted	aux:pass
49	blighted	blight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 flowers	acl:relcl
50	by	by	ADP	_	53 water	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 water	det
52	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 water	compound
53	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 blighted	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 affirmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	affirm	participle	a mariner			among the rest	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	year		that			before property	tree rules
3	hear	past · perfect	mariner	a rumor	a distant country	about a white bull	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rumor=Stimulus
4	come	past	a white bull				tree rules
5	swim	gerund	a white bull not said here		the sea	with a child on mariner's back	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sea=Trajectory
6	dress up	participle	mariner not said here		flowers		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	blight	past · passive	the sea water	flowers			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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