Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 55
He could not seriously think that this was the cow, because she went along so quietly, behaving just like any other cow.
Who acts: thought, this, cow · What happens: not think, be, go along, behave · To what, where: 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 (thought, this, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 4 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 cow | mark |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 cow | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cow | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cow | det |
| 10 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | conj |
| 15 | along | along | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 quietly | advmod |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 behaving | punct |
| 19 | behaving | behave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 cow | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 cow | case |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 cow | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cow | amod |
| 24 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 behaving | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | could | thought | seriously property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the cow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go along | past | cow | along, quietly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | behave | gerund | cow not said here | like any other cow | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like cow=Attribute |
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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