Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 3
The brindled cow, which has led us hither, will supply us with milk.
Who acts: brindled cow · What happens: lead, supply · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. 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), 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 | 3 cow | det |
| 2 | brindled | brindled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cow | amod |
| 3 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 supply | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 led | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 led | aux |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 cow | acl:relcl |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 led | obj |
| 9 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 7 led | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cow | punct |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 supply | aux |
| 12 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 supply | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 milk | case |
| 15 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 supply | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 supply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present · perfect | the brindled cow | us | hither property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 2 | supply | future | the brindled cow | us | with milk | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Recipient with milk=Theme |
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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