Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 50

I know not how far Cadmus had gone, nor could he himself have told you, when at no great distance before him, he beheld a brindled cow.

Who acts: I, Cadmus, man · What happens: not know, go, tell, behold · To what, where: man, you, brindled cow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, Cadmus, man), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 know	advmod
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 gone	advmod
6	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 know	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 told	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj:pass
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	12 he	nmod:unmarked
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 know	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 beheld	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 beheld	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 distance	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 distance	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 distance	amod
22	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beheld	obl
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 distance	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 distance	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 beheld	nsubj
27	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cow	det
29	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cow	amod
30	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beheld	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	past · perfect	Cadmus			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	could · perfect · passive		man	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
4	behold	past	man	a brindled cow		at no great distance before man	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus

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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