--- title: "Have you seen a little girl--no, no, I mean a young maiden of full… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Have you seen a little girl--no, no, I mean a young maiden of full growth--passing by this way, mounted on a snow-white bull, which gallops as swiftly as the wind?" Who acts: you, man, white bull. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/83/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Dragon's Teeth., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/) / 83 # Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 83 "Have you seen a little girl--no, no, I mean a young maiden of full growth--passing by this way, mounted on a snow-white bull, which gallops as swiftly as the wind?" **Who acts:** you, man, white bull · **What happens:** see, mean, pass, mount, gallop · **To what, where:** little girl, young maiden This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, white bull), 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:pg976:11:83 # text = "Have you seen a little girl--no, no, I mean a young maiden of full growth--passing by this way, mounted on a snow-white bull, which gallops as swiftly as the wind?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 -- -- PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 14 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 mounted mount VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 gallops gallop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 as as ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | a little girl | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | | 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | man | a young maiden of full growth | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic | | 3 | **pass** *in a quote* | gerund | man *not said here* | | | | | by this way | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location | | 4 | **mount** *in a quote* | participle | man *not said here* | | | | | on a white bull | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bull=Destination | | 5 | **gallop** *in a quote* | present | a white bull | | | | | as the wind; swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/84/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/)