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title: Making one bound (for this little princess was as active as a squirr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Making one bound (for this little princess was as active as a squirrel), there sat Europa on the beautiful bull, holding an ivory horn in each hand, lest she should fall off. Who acts: little princess, princess. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 48

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Making one bound (for this little princess was as active as a squirrel), there sat Europa on the beautiful bull, holding an ivory horn in each hand, lest she should fall off.

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**Who acts:** little princess, princess · **What happens:** make, be, sit, hold, fall off · **To what, where:** one bound, Europa, ivory horn, hand

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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 (little princess, princess), 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:pg976:10:48
# text = Making one bound (for this little princess was as active as a squirrel), there sat Europa on the beautiful bull, holding an ivory horn in each hand, lest she should fall off.
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	ivory	ivory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
37	off	off	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  | one bound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bound=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | this little princess |  |  |  |  | as a squirrel; active *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | past |  | Europa |  | there |  | on the beautiful bull | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent europa=Theme on bull=Location |
| 4 | **hold** | gerund |  | a ivory horn |  | each hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horn=Theme in hand=Location |
| 5 | **fall off** | should | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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