Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 18

So ridiculous were these images of themselves, indeed, that they did really laugh aloud, and could hardly be grave again as soon as they wished.

Who acts: ridiculous images, images · What happens: be, laugh, wish · To what, where: ridiculous images

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 (ridiculous images, images), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 ridiculous	advmod
2	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 images	amod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 images	cop
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 images	det
5	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laugh	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 themselves	case
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 images	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 indeed	punct
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	15 laugh	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laugh	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 laugh	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laugh	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laugh	aux
14	really	really	ADV	_	15 laugh	advmod
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	15 laugh	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grave	cc
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 grave	aux
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	22 grave	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 grave	cop
22	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 laugh	parataxis
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 grave	advmod
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 soon	advmod
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 grave	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 wished	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wished	nsubj
28	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 soon	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		this ridiculous images		of images = image	tree rules
2	laugh	past · do-support	this ridiculous images			aloud, indeed property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	could			again	grave, hardly, soon property	tree rules
4	wish	past	images = image				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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