Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 51

She was lying down by the wayside, and quietly chewing her cud; nor did she take any notice of the young man until he had approached pretty nigh.

Who acts: Cadmus, man · What happens: lie down, chew, take, approach, notice · To what, where: cud, notice, young man

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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	aux
3	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lying	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 wayside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wayside	det
7	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chewing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chewing	cc
10	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	11 chewing	advmod
11	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lying	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cud	nmod:poss
13	cud	cud	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chewing	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 take	cc
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lying	conj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 notice	det
20	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 man	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 notice	nmod
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 approached	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 approached	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 approached	aux
28	approached	approach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 take	advcl
29	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	30 nigh	advmod
30	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	28 approached	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie down	past · progressive	Cadmus		by the wayside; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wayside=Location
2	chew	gerund	Cadmus not said here	Cadmus's cud	quietly property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient
3	take	past · do-support	Cadmus	any notice of the young man		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
4	approach	past · perfect	man		nigh property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	notice			the young man		nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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