--- title: As the bull wheeled about to take another gallop across the meadow,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As the bull wheeled about to take another gallop across the meadow, the child waved her hand, and said, "Good-bye," playfully pretending that she was now bound on a distant journey, and might not see her brothers again for nobody could tell how long. Who acts: child, nobody. 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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 (child, nobody), 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:pg976:10:56 # text = As the bull wheeled about to take another gallop across the meadow, the child waved her hand, and said, "Good-bye," playfully pretending that she was now bound on a distant journey, and might not see her brothers again for nobody could tell how long. 1 As as ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 wheeled wheel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 gallop gallop NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 across across ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 bye bye NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 playfully playfully ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 35 bound bind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 ccomp _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 47 again again ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 48 for for SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 49 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 51 nsubj _ _ 50 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ _ 52 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 53 advmod _ _ 53 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wheel about** | past | | | | | | as the bull; about *property* | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | | another gallop | | the meadow | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gallop=Theme | | 3 | **wave** | past | the child | child's hand | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the child *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pretend** | gerund | the child *not said here* | | | | | playfully *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **bind** | past · passive | | child | | a distant journey | now | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **not** **see** | might | | child's brothers | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | nobody | | | | | long *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/57/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)