Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 71

Whether it were the oracular cow or some other one, it did not seem reasonable that she should travel a great way farther.

Who acts: brook, it, cow · What happens: be, not seem, travel · To what, where: oracular cow, great way

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, it, 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 cow	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cow	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cow	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
5	oracular	oracular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cow	amod
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seem	advcl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 one	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cow	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seem	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seem	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 seem	advmod
15	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seem	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 travel	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 travel	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 travel	aux
20	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 reasonable	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 travel	obl:unmarked
24	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 travel	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	brook	the oracular cow or some other one		tree rules
2	not seem	past · do-support	it		reasonable property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	travel	should	cow	a great way	far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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