Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 64

If he quickened his pace, the cow went just so much the faster; and once, when Cadmus tried to catch her by running, she threw out her heels, stuck her tail straight on end, and set off at a gallop, looking as queerly as cows generally do, while putting themselves to their speed.

Who acts: Brindle, cow, Cadmus, you, cows · What happens: quicken, go, try, catch, run, throw out · To what, where: pace, faster, cow, heels, tail, end

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, Cadmus, you), 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 quickened	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 quickened	nsubj
3	quickened	quicken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 set	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pace	nmod:poss
5	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quickened	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cow	det
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quickened	conj
10	just	just	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	14 faster	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 faster	det
14	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 went	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 once	cc
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 tried	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tried	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 tried	advmod
20	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 tried	nsubj
21	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quickened	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 catch	mark
23	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tried	xcomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 catch	obj
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 running	mark
26	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 catch	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 threw	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 threw	nsubj
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tried	parataxis
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 threw	compound:prt
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heels	nmod:poss
32	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 threw	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stuck	punct
34	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 threw	conj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 tail	nmod:poss
36	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stuck	obj
37	straight	straight	ADV	_	39 end	advmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 end	case
39	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stuck	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 set	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 set	cc
42	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
43	off	off	ADP	_	42 set	compound:prt
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 gallop	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 gallop	det
46	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 set	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 looking	punct
48	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 set	conj
49	as	as	ADV	_	50 queerly	advmod
50	queerly	queerly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 looking	xcomp
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 do	mark
52	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 do	nsubj
53	generally	generally	ADV	_	54 do	advmod
54	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 queerly	advcl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 putting	punct
56	while	while	SCONJ	_	57 putting	mark
57	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 looking	conj
58	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	57 putting	obj
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 speed	case
60	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 speed	nmod:poss
61	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 putting	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quicken a condition, not said to happen	past	Brindle	Brindle's pace				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient
2	go	past	the cow	the faster				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	past	Cadmus				once property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cadmus not said here	cow				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	run	gerund	Cadmus not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	throw out	past	cow	cow's heels				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Theme
7	stick	past	cow not said here	cow's tail		on end		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme on end=Destination
8	set off	imperative	you not said here		a gallop			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	look	gerund	you not said here				queerly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	do	present	cows				generally property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	put	gerund	you not said here	heels = heel			to heels's speed	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Goal

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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