Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 63
If he walked slowly, so did the cow, and seized the opportunity to graze.
Who acts: Brindle · What happens: walk, do, seize, graze · To what, where: cow, opportunity
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 walked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seized | advcl |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 did | advmod |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cow | det |
| 9 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seized | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seized | cc |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 opportunity | det |
| 14 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 graze | mark |
| 16 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 opportunity | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk a condition, not said to happen | past | Brindle | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Brindle not said here | the cow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | the opportunity | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | |||||
| 4 | graze | to-infinitive | the opportunity not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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