Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 79
Several persons who happened to see the brindled cow, and Cadmus following behind, began to trudge after her, precisely as he did.
Who acts: Several persons, Cadmus, herdsman · What happens: happen, see, follow, begin, trudge, do · To what, where: brindled cow
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 (Several persons, Cadmus, herdsman), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 persons | amod |
| 2 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 persons | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cow | det |
| 8 | brindled | brindled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cow | amod |
| 9 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 12 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 began | nsubj |
| 13 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Cadmus | acl |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 13 following | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cadmus | punct |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 trudge | mark |
| 18 | trudge | trudge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 trudge | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 precisely | punct |
| 22 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 18 trudge | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 did | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 precisely | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 persons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Several persons | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Several persons not said here | the brindled cow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | Cadmus not said here | behind property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | Cadmus | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | trudge | to-infinitive | Cadmus not said here | after Cadmus | precisely property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | do | past | herdsman | vn act-114-1 «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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