--- title: Europa screamed with delight; and Phoenix, Cilix, and Cadmus stood g… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Europa screamed with delight; and Phoenix, Cilix, and Cadmus stood gaping at the spectacle of their sister mounted on a white bull, not knowing whether to be frightened or to wish the same good luck for themselves. Who acts: Europa, Phoenix. 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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 (Europa, Phoenix), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:731`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:10:53 # text = Europa screamed with delight; and Phoenix, Cilix, and Cadmus stood gaping at the spectacle of their sister mounted on a white bull, not knowing whether to be frightened or to wish the same good luck for themselves. 1 Europa Europa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 screamed scream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 7 Phoenix Phoenix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Cilix Cilix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Cadmus Cadmus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 13 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 gaping gape VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 xcomp _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 spectacle spectacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 mounted mount VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 29 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 ccomp _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | Europa | | | | | with delight | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with delight=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | Phoenix and Cilix and Cadmus | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **gape** | gerund | Phoenix and Cilix and Cadmus *not said here* | | | | | at the spectacle of Cadmus's sister | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spectacle=Theme | | 4 | **mount** | participle | | Cadmus's sister *not said here* | | | | on a white bull | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bull=Destination | | 5 | **not** **know** | gerund | Phoenix and Cilix and Cadmus *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **frighten** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 7 | **wish** | to-infinitive | | the same good luck | | | | for Cadmus | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot luck=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/54/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)