Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 13

But whenever the mariners were not looking at them (which was pretty often, as they looked chiefly into the basins and platters), the beautiful woman and her damsels turned aside, and laughed.

Who acts: mariners, damsels · What happens: not look, be, look, turn, laugh

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mariners, damsels), 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	_	18 looked	cc
2	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 looking	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mariners	det
4	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looking	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looking	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 looking	advmod
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 looked	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looking	obl
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 often	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 often	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 often	cop
13	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	14 often	advmod
14	often	often	ADV	_	7 looking	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 looked	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	_	18 looked	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 basins	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 basins	det
22	basins	basin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 platters	cc
24	platters	platter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 basins	conj
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 platters	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 woman	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 basins	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 turned	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 damsels	nmod:poss
32	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 turned	nsubj
33	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looked	conj
34	aside	aside	ADV	_	33 turned	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 laughed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 laughed	cc
37	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looked	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not look	past · progressive	the mariners	at servants = servant; whenever property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	is	past		often, pretty property	tree rules
3	look	past	mariners = mariner	into the basins and platters and the beautiful woman; chiefly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into basin=Theme
4	turn	past	woman's damsels	aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	laugh	past	mariners = mariner not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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