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title: And not only did the bull bend his neck, he absolutely knelt down at… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And not only did the bull bend his neck, he absolutely knelt down at her feet, and made such intelligent nods, and other inviting gestures, that Europa understood what he meant just as well as if he had put it in so many words. Who acts: bull, Europa. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Ha
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 37

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And not only did the bull bend his neck, he absolutely knelt down at her feet, and made such intelligent nods, and other inviting gestures, that Europa understood what he meant just as well as if he had put it in so many words.

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**Who acts:** bull, Europa · **What happens:** not bend, kneel down, make, invite, understand, mean · **To what, where:** neck, feet, such intelligent nods, truth, many words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (bull, Europa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg976:10:37
# text = And not only did the bull bend his neck, he absolutely knelt down at her feet, and made such intelligent nods, and other inviting gestures, that Europa understood what he meant just as well as if he had put it in so many words.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	nods	nod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	gestures	gesture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	obj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
36	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	35	advmod	_	_
38	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	fixed	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bend** | past · do-support | the bull | bull's neck |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material |
| 2 | **kneel down** | past | bull |  |  | Europa's feet |  | absolutely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 3 | **make** | past | bull *not said here* | such intelligent nods |  |  |  | other inviting gestures *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nod=Product |
| 4 | **invite** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **understand** | past | Europa |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **mean** | past | bull |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 7 | **put** | past · perfect | bull | truth |  | many words |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in word=Destination |

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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.

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**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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