Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 100
And slowly, slowly did she recline herself on the soft grass, first bending her forelegs, and then crouching her hind ones.
Who acts: cow · What happens: recline, bend, crouch · To what, where: cow, soft grass, forelegs, hind ones
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 (cow), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 recline | cc |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 7 recline | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 slowly | punct |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 7 recline | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recline | aux |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 recline | nsubj |
| 7 | recline | recline | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 recline | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 grass | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grass | det |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grass | amod |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recline | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bending | punct |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 bending | advmod |
| 15 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 recline | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 forelegs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | forelegs | foreleg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bending | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crouching | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crouching | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 crouching | advmod |
| 21 | crouching | crouch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 bending | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ones | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ones | amod |
| 24 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 crouching | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 recline | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recline | past · do-support | cow | cow | the soft grass | slowly property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on grass=Destination | ||
| 2 | bend | gerund | cow not said here | cow's forelegs | first property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent foreleg=Material | |||
| 3 | crouch | gerund | cow not said here | cow's hind ones | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=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.
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