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title: But still the brindled cow trudged on, whisking her tail to keep the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But still the brindled cow trudged on, whisking her tail to keep the flies away, and taking as little notice of Cadmus as she well could. Who acts: brindled cow. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 62

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But still the brindled cow trudged on, whisking her tail to keep the flies away, and taking as little notice of Cadmus as she well could.

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**Who acts:** brindled cow · **What happens:** trudge on, whisk, keep away, take, notice · **To what, where:** tail, flies, Cadmus

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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 (brindled cow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:12:62
# text = But still the brindled cow trudged on, whisking her tail to keep the flies away, and taking as little notice of Cadmus as she well could.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	brindled	brindled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	trudged	trudge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	whisking	whisk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trudge on** | participle | the brindled cow |  |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **whisk** | gerund | the brindled cow *not said here* | cow's tail |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **keep away** | to-infinitive | the brindled cow *not said here* | the flies |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | the brindled cow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as little notice of Cadmus | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as notice=Attribute |
| 5 | **notice** |  |  | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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