Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 17

Looking into its bosom, they beheld their own faces dimly reflected, but so extravagantly distorted by the gush and motion of the water, that each one of them appeared to be laughing at himself and all his companions.

Who acts: others, own faces, one, liquor, water · What happens: look, behold, reflect, distort, appear, laugh

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, own faces, one, liquor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 beheld	advcl
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 bosom	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bosom	nmod:poss
4	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beheld	nsubj
7	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 faces	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 faces	amod
10	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reflected	nsubj
11	dimly	dimly	ADV	_	12 reflected	advmod
12	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beheld	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 distorted	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 distorted	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 extravagantly	advmod
16	extravagantly	extravagantly	ADV	_	17 distorted	advmod
17	distorted	distort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 beheld	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 gush	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gush	det
20	gush	gush	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 distorted	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 motion	cc
22	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gush	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 motion	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 appeared	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 appeared	mark
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 appeared	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 one	nmod
32	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 distorted	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 laughing	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 laughing	aux
35	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 appeared	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 himself	case
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 laughing	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 companions	cc
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 companions	det:predet
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 companions	nmod:poss
41	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 himself	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	others = other not said here	into liquor's bosom	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into bosom=Theme
2	behold	past	others = other		tree rules
3	reflect	past	others's own faces	dimly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	distort	participle	others = other not said here	by the gush and motion of the water; extravagantly property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
5	appear	past	each one of others		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	laugh	to-infinitive · progressive	each one of others not said here	at garden	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	bosom		liquor		nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent
8	motion		the water		nom motion «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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.

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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