Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 89

The secret of it was, you must know, that the cow was an enchanted cow, and that, without their being conscious of it, she threw some of her enchantment over everybody that took so much as half a dozen steps behind her.

Who acts: secret, cow · What happens: be, enchant, throw, take · To what, where: enchanted cow, some, everybody, much

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 (secret, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 know	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 secret	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cow	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 cow	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cow	det
13	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cow	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cow	cop
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cow	det
16	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cow	amod
17	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 know	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 that	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 that	cc
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 cow	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 that	punct
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 conscious	mark
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 conscious	nmod:poss
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 conscious	cop
25	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 know	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 conscious	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 threw	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 threw	nsubj
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	parataxis
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 threw	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 enchantment	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 enchantment	nmod:poss
34	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 some	nmod
35	over	over	ADP	_	36 everybody	case
36	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 threw	obl
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 took	nsubj
38	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 everybody	acl:relcl
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 took	obj
41	as	as	ADP	_	45 steps	case
42	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	45 steps	det:predet
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 steps	det
44	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 steps	nummod
45	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 much	obl
46	behind	behind	ADP	_	47 her	case
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 steps	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must · past	the secret of end				know property	tree rules
2	enchant	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the cow	a enchanted cow			that nmod	tree rules
4	is	gerund	the secret of end not said here			of end	conscious property	tree rules
5	throw	past	cow	some	everybody			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent some=Theme over everybody=Destination
6	take	past		much				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
7	enchant		cow					nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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