Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 73

But still, whether he liked the place or no, the brindled cow never offered to lie down.

Who acts: situation, brindled cow · What happens: like, not offer, lie down · To what, where: place

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 (situation, brindled 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 liked	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	6 liked	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 liked	punct
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 liked	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 liked	nsubj
6	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 liked	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 offered	cc
10	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	16 offered	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 no	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cow	det
13	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cow	amod
14	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 offered	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 offered	advmod
16	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 liked	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 lie	mark
18	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 offered	xcomp
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 lie	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	like	past	situation	the place	still	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot place=Theme
2	not offer	past	the brindled cow			tree rules
3	lie down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the brindled cow not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «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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