Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 66
The cow, too, went leisurely on, without looking behind.
Who acts: cow · What happens: go, look
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cow | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cow | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | leisurely | leisurely | ADV | _ | 8 on | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 looking | mark |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the cow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the cow not said here | behind property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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