Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 64

There were four other young women, who joined their hands and danced merrily forward, making gestures of obeisance to the strangers.

Who acts: four other young women, obeisance · What happens: be, join, dance, make, gesture · To what, where: hands, gestures

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 (four other young women, obeisance), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 women	nummod
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 women	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 women	amod
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 joined	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 joined	nsubj
9	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 women	acl:relcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 joined	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 danced	cc
13	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 joined	conj
14	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	13 danced	advmod
15	forward	forward	ADV	_	13 danced	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 making	punct
17	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 danced	advcl
18	gestures	gesture	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 making	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 obeisance	case
20	obeisance	obeisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gestures	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 strangers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 strangers	det
23	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 making	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	four other young women		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	join	past	four other young women	doors's hands			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	dance	past	four other young women not said here			forward, merrily property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	gerund	four other young women not said here	gestures of obeisance		to the strangers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gesture=Product
5	gesture		obeisance				nom gesture «act 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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