Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 91

The cow was by no means very nice in choosing her path; so that sometimes they had to scramble over rocks, or wade through mud and mire, and all in a terribly bedraggled condition, and tired to death, and very hungry, into the bargain.

Who acts: cow, miles · What happens: be, choose, have, scramble, wade, bedraggle · To what, where: path, rocks, mud

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 (cow, miles), 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 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	cop
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 no	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 means	obl
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 nice	advmod
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 choosing	mark
10	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 nice	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 path	nmod:poss
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 choosing	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 had	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 had	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 scramble	mark
20	scramble	scramble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 rocks	case
22	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 scramble	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wade	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 wade	cc
25	wade	wade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 had	conj
26	through	through	ADP	_	27 mud	case
27	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wade	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mire	cc
29	mire	mire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mud	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tired	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tired	cc
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 tired	nsubj
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 condition	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 condition	det
35	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	36 bedraggled	advmod
36	bedraggled	bedraggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 condition	amod
37	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 all	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tired	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tired	cc
40	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wade	advcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 death	case
42	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tired	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 hungry	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 hungry	cc
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 hungry	advmod
46	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wade	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 bargain	punct
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 bargain	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 bargain	det
50	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hungry	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cow			by no; mean, nice property	tree rules
2	choose	gerund	the cow not said here	cow's path			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
3	have	past	miles = mile			sometimes property	tree rules
4	scramble	to-infinitive	miles = mile not said here		rocks		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rock=Trajectory
5	wade	present	miles = mile not said here		mud and mire		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mud=Trajectory
6	bedraggle	participle				terribly property	tree rules

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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