Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 61

He wanted to come up with the cow, so as to examine her, and see if she would appear to know him, or whether there were any peculiarities to distinguish her from a thousand other cows, whose only business is to fill the milk-pail, and sometimes kick it over.

Who acts: Brindle, cow, peculiarities, business · What happens: want, come up, examine, see, appear, know · To what, where: cow, Brindle, thousand other cows, pail

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 (Brindle, cow, peculiarities, business), 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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 come	mark
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 come	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cow	det
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 examine	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 examine	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 examine	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 examine	mark
13	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 examine	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 examine	conj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 appear	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 appear	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 appear	aux
21	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 know	mark
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 appear	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 know	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 distinguish	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 distinguish	cc
27	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	29 were	mark
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 were	expl
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 distinguish	parataxis
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 peculiarities	det
31	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 were	nsubj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 distinguish	mark
33	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 distinguish	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	39 cows	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 thousand	det
37	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 cows	nummod
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cows	amod
39	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 distinguish	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 fill	punct
41	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	43 business	nmod:poss
42	only	only	ADV	_	43 business	advmod
43	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fill	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 fill	cop
45	to	to	PART	_	46 fill	mark
46	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 cows	acl:relcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 pail	det
48	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 pail	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 milk	punct
50	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fill	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 kick	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 kick	cc
53	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	54 kick	advmod
54	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	parataxis
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 kick	obj
56	over	over	ADP	_	54 kick	compound:prt
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	Brindle				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	come up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Brindle not said here			with the cow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	examine	to-infinitive	Brindle not said here	cow			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	see	infinitive	Brindle not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	appear a condition, not said to happen	would	cow				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	know	to-infinitive	cow not said here	Brindle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	be	past	any peculiarities		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	distinguish	to-infinitive	Brindle not said here	cow		from thousand other cows	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme from cow=Co-Theme
9	is	present	business	thousand other cows not said here		fill property	tree rules
10	kick over	infinitive		pail		sometimes property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=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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