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title: "Have you seen a beautiful maiden, dressed like a king's daughter, a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Have you seen a beautiful maiden, dressed like a king's daughter, and mounted on a snow-white bull, that gallops as swiftly as the wind?" Who acts: you, white bull. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 48

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"Have you seen a beautiful maiden, dressed like a king's daughter, and mounted on a snow-white bull, that gallops as swiftly as the wind?"

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**Who acts:** you, white bull · **What happens:** see, dress, mount, gallop · **To what, where:** beautiful maiden

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, white bull), 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:pg976:12:48
# text = "Have you seen a beautiful maiden, dressed like a king's daughter, and mounted on a snow-white bull, that 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	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gallops	gallop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | a beautiful maiden |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dress** *in a quote* | participle |  | a beautiful maiden *not said here* |  |  |  | like a king's daughter | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mount** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a white bull | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bull=Destination |
| 4 | **gallop** *in a quote* | present | a white bull |  |  |  |  | as the wind; swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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