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title: Where a brook glistened brightly across the path, there the cow dran… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Where a brook glistened brightly across the path, there the cow drank, and breathed a comfortable sigh, and drank again, and trudged onward at the pace that best suited herself and Cadmus. Who acts: brook, cow. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, wit
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 68

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Where a brook glistened brightly across the path, there the cow drank, and breathed a comfortable sigh, and drank again, and trudged onward at the pace that best suited herself and Cadmus.

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**Who acts:** brook, cow · **What happens:** glisten, drink, breathe, trudge, suit · **To what, where:** path, comfortable sigh, pace

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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 (brook, 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:pg976:12:68
# text = Where a brook glistened brightly across the path, there the cow drank, and breathed a comfortable sigh, and drank again, and trudged onward at the pace that best suited herself and Cadmus.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	glistened	glisten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	trudged	trudge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
27	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
32	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	suited	suit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glisten** | participle | a brook |  |  | the path |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | past | the cow |  |  | there |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **breathe** | past | the cow *not said here* | a comfortable sigh |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme |
| 4 | **drink** | past | the cow *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **trudge** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at the pace; onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory |
| 6 | **suit** | past |  | the pace |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |

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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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