Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 75
But no milkmaid came; no herdsman drove her back; and Cadmus followed the stray Brindle till he was almost ready to drop down with fatigue.
Who acts: milkmaid, herdsman, Cadmus · What happens: come, drive back, follow, be, drop down · To what, where: milkmaid, stray Brindle
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 (milkmaid, herdsman, Cadmus), 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 | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 milkmaid | det |
| 3 | milkmaid | milkmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 drove | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 herdsman | det |
| 7 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drove | nsubj |
| 8 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drove | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 drove | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 followed | cc |
| 13 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | nsubj |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Brindle | det |
| 16 | stray | stray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Brindle | amod |
| 17 | Brindle | Brindle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | obj |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 ready | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ready | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ready | cop |
| 21 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 22 ready | advmod |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 followed | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 drop | mark |
| 24 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ready | xcomp |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 drop | compound:prt |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fatigue | case |
| 27 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drop | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | no milkmaid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drive back | past | no herdsman | milkmaid | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | Cadmus | the stray Brindle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brindle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | herdsman | almost, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drop down | to-infinitive | herdsman not said here | with fatigue | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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