Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 64
While they were crossing the pasture ground, the brazen bulls came towards Jason, lowing, nodding their heads, and thrusting forth their snouts, which, as other cattle do, they loved to have rubbed and caressed by a friendly hand.
Who acts: streets, brazen bulls, snouts · What happens: cross, come, low, nod, thrust, do · To what, where: pasture ground, Jason, heads, snouts
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (streets, brazen bulls, snouts), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 crossing | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crossing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossing | aux |
| 4 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 6 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ground | compound |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossing | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bulls | det |
| 10 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bulls | amod |
| 11 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 Jason | case |
| 14 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lowing | punct |
| 16 | lowing | low | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nodding | punct |
| 18 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 lowing | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heads | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 nodding | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thrusting | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thrusting | cc |
| 23 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 24 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 23 thrusting | advmod |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 snouts | nmod:poss |
| 26 | snouts | snout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 thrusting | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 do | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cattle | amod |
| 32 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 do | nsubj |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 snouts | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 loved | punct |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 loved | nsubj |
| 36 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 rubbed | mark |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 rubbed | aux |
| 39 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 loved | ccomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 caressed | cc |
| 41 | caressed | caress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 rubbed | conj |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 hand | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 hand | det |
| 44 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 hand | amod |
| 45 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 caressed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · progressive | streets = street | the pasture ground | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the brazen bulls | Jason | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards jason=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | low | gerund | the brazen bulls not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | nod | gerund | the brazen bulls not said here | streets's heads | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 5 | thrust | gerund | the brazen bulls not said here | streets's snouts | forth property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Theme | |||
| 6 | do | present | streets's snouts | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | love | past | streets = street | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | rub not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | streets = street not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | caress | participle | streets = street not said here | by a friendly hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent by hand=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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