Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 62

But still the brindled cow trudged on, whisking her tail to keep the flies away, and taking as little notice of Cadmus as she well could.

Who acts: brindled cow · What happens: trudge on, whisk, keep away, take, notice · To what, where: tail, flies, Cadmus

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 (brindled 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 trudged	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	6 trudged	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cow	det
4	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cow	amod
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trudged	nsubj
6	trudged	trudge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 trudged	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whisking	punct
9	whisking	whisk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 trudged	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tail	nmod:poss
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whisking	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 whisking	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flies	det
15	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 keep	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	13 keep	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taking	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 taking	cc
19	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 trudged	advcl
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 notice	case
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 notice	amod
22	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taking	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Cadmus	case
24	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 notice	nmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 could	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 could	nsubj
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 could	advmod
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 taking	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trudged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	trudge on	participle	the brindled cow		still		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whisk	gerund	the brindled cow not said here	cow's tail			vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	keep away	to-infinitive	the brindled cow not said here	the flies		away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
4	take	gerund	the brindled cow not said here			as little notice of Cadmus	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as notice=Attribute
5	notice			Cadmus			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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