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title: The brindled cow, which has led us hither, will supply us with milk. — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The brindled cow, which has led us hither, will supply us with milk. Who acts: brindled cow. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 3

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The brindled cow, which has led us hither, will supply us with milk.

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**Who acts:** brindled cow · **What happens:** lead, supply · **To what, where:** us

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. 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:pg976:13:3
# text = The brindled cow, which has led us hither, will supply us with milk.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brindled	brindled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	supply	supply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present · perfect | the brindled cow | us |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **supply** | future | the brindled cow |  | us |  |  | with milk | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Recipient with milk=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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