Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 41

The water of this fountain, as it spouted upward, was constantly taking new shapes, not very distinctly, but plainly enough for a nimble fancy to recognize what they were.

Who acts: water, fountains · What happens: spout, be, recognize · To what, where: fountain, nimble fancy

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 (water, fountains), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fountain	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fountain	det
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spouted	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 spouted	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spouted	nsubj
9	spouted	spout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fountain	acl:relcl
10	upward	upward	ADV	_	9 spouted	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 water	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taking	cop
13	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	14 taking	advmod
14	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shapes	amod
16	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 taking	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 distinctly	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 distinctly	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 distinctly	advmod
20	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	14 taking	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fancy	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 fancy	cc
23	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	28 fancy	advmod
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 plainly	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 fancy	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fancy	det
27	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fancy	amod
28	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 recognize	mark
30	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fancy	acl
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 recognize	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 what	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 what	cop
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spout	past	water	this fountain not said here	upward property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fountain=Source
2	is	past	the water of this fountain		constantly, distinctly, take property	tree rules
3	recognize	to-infinitive	the water of this fountain not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	fountains = fountain	a nimble fancy		tree rules

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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