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title: On she went at the quiet pace of a cow going homeward to the barn ya… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On she went at the quiet pace of a cow going homeward to the barn yard; and, every moment, Cadmus expected to see a milkmaid approaching with a pail, or a herdsman running to head the stray animal, and turn her back towards the pasture. Who acts: cow, Cadmus, milkmaid, herdsman. A sentence of «Tangl
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 74

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On she went at the quiet pace of a cow going homeward to the barn yard; and, every moment, Cadmus expected to see a milkmaid approaching with a pail, or a herdsman running to head the stray animal, and turn her back towards the pasture.

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**Who acts:** cow, Cadmus, milkmaid, herdsman · **What happens:** go, expect, see, approach, run, turn back · **To what, where:** homeward, milkmaid, herdsman, stray animal, cow

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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 (cow, Cadmus, milkmaid, herdsman), 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:pg976:12:74
# text = On she went at the quiet pace of a cow going homeward to the barn yard; and, every moment, Cadmus expected to see a milkmaid approaching with a pail, or a herdsman running to head the stray animal, and turn her back towards the pasture.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	advcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	stray	stray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
46	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	back	back	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | cow |  |  |  |  | at the quiet pace of a cow | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at pace=Location |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | a cow *not said here* | homeward |  |  |  | to the barn yard | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=Theme |
| 3 | **expect** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  | moment |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Cadmus *not said here* | a milkmaid |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer milkmaid=Stimulus |
| 5 | **approach** | gerund | a milkmaid *not said here* | a herdsman |  |  |  | with a pail | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pail=Instrument |
| 6 | **run** | gerund | a herdsman *not said here* | the stray animal |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **turn back** | infinitive | Cadmus *not said here* | cow |  |  |  | towards the pasture | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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