Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 127

Proserpina's eyes being drawn to it by its brisk motion, she saw that this tail was neither more nor less than a live dragon, with fiery eyes, and fangs that had a very poisonous aspect.

Who acts: brisk motion, Proserpina, tail, fangs, dog · What happens: draw, see, be, have, motion · To what, where: eyes, dog, poisonous aspect

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brisk motion, Proserpina, tail, fangs), 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	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eyes	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Proserpina	case
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drawn	nsubj:pass
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 drawn	aux:pass
5	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drawn	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 motion	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 motion	nmod:poss
10	brisk	brisk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 motion	amod
11	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drawn	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 more	mark
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 tail	det
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 more	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 more	cop
19	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 more	cc:preconj
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 saw	obj
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 less	cc
22	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 more	conj
23	than	than	ADP	_	26 dragon	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dragon	det
25	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dragon	amod
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 more	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eyes	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 eyes	case
29	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eyes	amod
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 saw	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 had	cc
33	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 had	nsubj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drawn	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 aspect	det
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 poisonous	advmod
38	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 aspect	amod
39	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund · passive	dog's brisk motion	Proserpina's eyes	dog		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to it=Destination
2	see	past	Proserpina				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	this tail			than a live dragon; more property	tree rules
4	be		this tail not said here				tree rules
5	have	past	fangs	a poisonous aspect			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aspect=Patient
6	motion		dog				nom motion «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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