Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 41

"Where the stray cow lies down, there is your home."

Who acts: stray cow · What happens: lie down

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 (stray 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cow	det
4	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cow	amod
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lies	nsubj
6	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	advcl:relcl
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lies	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	advcl:relcl
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 home	nmod:poss
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down in a quote	present	the stray cow					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «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.

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