--- title: And the bull ran little races, and capered sportively around the chi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the bull ran little races, and capered sportively around the child; so that she quite forgot how big and strong he was, and, from the gentleness and playfulness of his actions, soon came to consider him as innocent a creature as a pet lamb. Who acts: bull, child, gentleness. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bull, child, gentleness), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:10:24 # text = And the bull ran little races, and capered sportively around the child; so that she quite forgot how big and strong he was, and, from the gentleness and playfulness of his actions, soon came to consider him as innocent a creature as a pet lamb. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 races race NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 capered caper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 sportively sportively ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 around around ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 19 mark _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 quite quite ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 gentleness gentleness NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 playfulness playfulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 38 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 39 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 consider consider VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 innocent innocent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 47 as as ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 lamb lamb NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | the bull | little races | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory | | 2 | **caper** | past | the bull *not said here* | | | | | around the child; sportively *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around child=Trajectory | | 3 | **forget** | past | child | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | past | the gentleness and playfulness of bull's actions | | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **consider** | to-infinitive | the gentleness and playfulness of bull's actions *not said here* | bull | | | | as a pet lamb | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme creature=Attribute | | 8 | **act** | | bull | | | | | | nom action «act 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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/25/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)