Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 68

Where a brook glistened brightly across the path, there the cow drank, and breathed a comfortable sigh, and drank again, and trudged onward at the pace that best suited herself and Cadmus.

Who acts: brook, cow · What happens: glisten, drink, breathe, trudge, suit · To what, where: path, comfortable sigh, pace

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 (brook, 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 glistened	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 brook	det
3	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glistened	nsubj
4	glistened	glisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	4 glistened	advmod
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 path	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glistened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drank	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 drank	expl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cow	det
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drank	nsubj
13	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glistened	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 breathed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 breathed	cc
16	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drank	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sigh	det
18	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sigh	amod
19	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 breathed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drank	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drank	cc
22	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drank	conj
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 drank	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 trudged	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 trudged	cc
26	trudged	trudge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drank	parataxis
27	onward	onward	ADV	_	26 trudged	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 pace	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pace	det
30	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trudged	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 suited	obj
32	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 suited	advmod
33	suited	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pace	acl:relcl
34	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 suited	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Cadmus	cc
36	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 herself	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glistened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glisten	participle	a brook		the path		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drink	past	the cow		there			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	breathe	past	the cow not said here	a comfortable sigh				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme
4	drink	past	the cow not said here			again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	trudge	past					at the pace; onward property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory
6	suit	past		the pace			well property	tree rules

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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