Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 55

But how innocently those women are babbling together, without guessing that we overhear them!

Who acts: women, we · What happens: babble, guess, overhear · To what, where: forms

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 (women, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 babbling	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 innocently	advmod
3	innocently	innocently	ADV	_	7 babbling	advmod
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 women	det
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 babbling	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 babbling	aux
7	babbling	babble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 babbling	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 guessing	punct
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 guessing	mark
11	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 babbling	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 overhear	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 overhear	nsubj
14	overhear	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 guessing	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 overhear	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 babbling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	babble	present · progressive	that women		innocently, together property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	guess	gerund	that women not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	overhear	present	we	forms = form		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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