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title: If he quickened his pace, the cow went just so much the faster; and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If he quickened his pace, the cow went just so much the faster; and once, when Cadmus tried to catch her by running, she threw out her heels, stuck her tail straight on end, and set off at a gallop, looking as queerly as cows generally do, while putting themselves to their speed. Who acts: Brindle, 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 64

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If he quickened his pace, the cow went just so much the faster; and once, when Cadmus tried to catch her by running, she threw out her heels, stuck her tail straight on end, and set off at a gallop, looking as queerly as cows generally do, while putting themselves to their speed.

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**Who acts:** Brindle, cow, Cadmus, you, cows · **What happens:** quicken, go, try, catch, run, throw out · **To what, where:** pace, faster, cow, heels, tail, end

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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 (Brindle, cow, Cadmus, you), 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:pg976:12:64
# text = If he quickened his pace, the cow went just so much the faster; and once, when Cadmus tried to catch her by running, she threw out her heels, stuck her tail straight on end, and set off at a gallop, looking as queerly as cows generally do, while putting themselves to their speed.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	quickened	quicken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
43	off	off	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	gallop	gallop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	conj	_	_
49	as	as	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	queerly	queerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
52	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
53	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
57	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	conj	_	_
58	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	57	obj	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quicken** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Brindle | Brindle's pace |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | the cow | the faster |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Cadmus *not said here* | cow |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **throw out** | past | cow | cow's heels |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Theme |
| 7 | **stick** | past | cow *not said here* | cow's tail |  |  | on end |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme on end=Destination |
| 8 | **set off** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a gallop |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **look** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | queerly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 10 | **do** | present | cows |  |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **put** | gerund | you *not said here* | heels *= heel* |  |  |  | to heels's speed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Goal |

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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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