Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 42

Now it was the shape of a man in a long robe, the fleecy whiteness of which was made out of the fountain's spray; now it was a lion, or a tiger, or a wolf, or an ass, or, as often as anything else, a hog, wallowing in the marble basin as if it were his sty.

Who acts: water · What happens: be, make out, wallow · To what, where: shape, spray, lion, marble basin, sty

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), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 shape	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shape	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shape	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shape	det
5	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shape	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 robe	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 robe	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 robe	amod
12	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 whiteness	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 whiteness	det
15	fleecy	fleecy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 whiteness	amod
16	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shape	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 made	obl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 made	aux:pass
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 whiteness	acl:relcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	26 spray	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 spray	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fountain	det
24	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spray	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 fountain	case
26	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 lion	punct
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 lion	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lion	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lion	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 lion	det
32	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tiger	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 tiger	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tiger	det
36	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lion	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wolf	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 wolf	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 wolf	det
40	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lion	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ass	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 ass	cc
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 ass	det
44	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lion	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 wallowing	punct
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	57 wallowing	cc
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 or	punct
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 often	advmod
49	often	often	ADV	_	57 wallowing	advmod
50	as	as	ADP	_	51 anything	case
51	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	49 often	obl
52	else	else	ADV	_	51 anything	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 hog	punct
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 hog	det
55	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 anything	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 wallowing	punct
57	wallowing	wallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 made	advcl
58	in	in	ADP	_	61 basin	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 basin	det
60	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 basin	compound
61	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 wallowing	obl
62	as	as	SCONJ	_	67 sty	mark
63	if	if	SCONJ	_	67 sty	mark
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 sty	nsubj
65	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 sty	cop
66	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 sty	nmod:poss
67	sty	sty	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 wallowing	advcl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shape	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	water	the shape		now	of a man in a long robe	tree rules
2	make out	past · passive		the fountain's spray			of the fleecy whiteness	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: spray=Stimulus
3	is a	past	water	a lion or a tiger or a wolf or a ass		now		tree rules
4	wallow	gerund			the marble basin		often property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	water	whiteness's sty				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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