Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 99

They all looked; and, sure enough, the cow had stopped, and was staring leisurely about her, as other cows do when on the point of lying down.

Who acts: hands, cow, other cows, point · What happens: look, stop, stare, do, lie down · To what, where: point

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 (hands, cow, other cows, point), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 looked	advmod
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sure	cc
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct
7	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	conj
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 sure	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopped	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cow	det
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stopped	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stopped	aux
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 looked	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 staring	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 staring	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 staring	aux
17	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 stopped	advcl
18	leisurely	leisurely	ADV	_	17 staring	advmod
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 staring	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 do	mark
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cows	amod
24	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 do	nsubj
25	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stopped	conj
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 do	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 point	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 point	det
29	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obl
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 lying	mark
31	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 point	acl
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 lying	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	hands = hand			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	stop	past · perfect	the cow			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	stare	past · progressive	the cow not said here		about cow; leisurely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme
4	do	present	other cows	the point		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lie down	gerund	the point not said here		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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