Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 56

Evidently she neither knew nor cared so much as a wisp of hay about Cadmus, and was only thinking how to get her living along the wayside, where the herbage was green and fresh.

Who acts: cow, herbage · What happens: know, care, think, get, be, live · To what, where: much, living · 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 (cow, herbage), 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	Evidently	evidently	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
3	neither	neither	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cared	cc
6	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cared	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 wisp	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wisp	det
11	wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 much	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 hay	case
13	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wisp	nmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 Cadmus	case
15	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hay	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thinking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thinking	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thinking	aux
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 thinking	advmod
20	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 knew	parataxis
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 get	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thinking	ccomp
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 living	nmod:poss
25	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	along	along	ADP	_	28 wayside	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wayside	det
28	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 green	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 green	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 herbage	det
32	herbage	herbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 green	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 green	cop
34	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 get	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fresh	cc
36	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 green	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	cow		evidently, neither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	care	past	cow not said here	much	as a wisp of hay about Cadmus	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past · progressive				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive		cow's living	along the wayside	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus
5	is	past	the herbage		green property	tree rules
6	be		the herbage not said here			tree rules
7	live		cow			nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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