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title: They all looked; and, sure enough, the cow had stopped, and was star… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They all looked; and, sure enough, the cow had stopped, and was staring leisurely about her, as other cows do when on the point of lying down. Who acts: hands, cow, other cows, point. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and t
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 99

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They all looked; and, sure enough, the cow had stopped, and was staring leisurely about her, as other cows do when on the point of lying down.

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**Who acts:** hands, cow, other cows, point · **What happens:** look, stop, stare, do, lie down · **To what, where:** point

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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 (hands, cow, other cows, point), 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:pg976:12:99
# text = They all looked; and, sure enough, the cow had stopped, and was staring leisurely about her, as other cows do when on the point of lying down.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	leisurely	leisurely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stop** | past · perfect | the cow |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stare** | past · progressive | the cow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about cow; leisurely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | present | other cows |  |  | the point |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lie down** | gerund | the point *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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