Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 76
"O brindled cow," cried he, in a tone of despair, "do you never mean to stop?"
Who acts: brindled cow, you · What happens: cry, not mean, stop, intonate · To what, where: herdsman, tone, despair · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brindled cow, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cow | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 cow | discourse |
| 3 | brindled | brindled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cow | amod |
| 4 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cow | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tone | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tone | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tone | det |
| 12 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 despair | case |
| 14 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tone | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mean | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 mean | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 mean | advmod |
| 20 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 stop | mark |
| 22 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 mean | xcomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | brindled cow | herdsman | a tone of despair | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 2 | not mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stop not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | intonate | despair | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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