Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 45

They would have wrung their hands in despair, but, attempting to do so, grew all the more desperate for seeing themselves squatted on their hams, and pawing the air with their fore trotters.

Who acts: hogs · What happens: wring, attempt, do, grow, see, squat · To what, where: hands, despair, hogs, hams, air

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 (hogs), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrung	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 wrung	aux
4	wrung	wring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrung	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 despair	case
8	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrung	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 attempting	punct
12	attempting	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 grew	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 attempting	xcomp
15	so	so	ADV	_	14 do	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 attempting	punct
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 desperate	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 desperate	det
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 desperate	advmod
21	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grew	xcomp
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 seeing	mark
23	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 desperate	advcl
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 seeing	obj
25	squatted	squat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 seeing	xcomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 hams	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hams	nmod:poss
28	hams	ham	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 squatted	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pawing	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pawing	cc
31	pawing	paw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 grew	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 air	det
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pawing	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 trotters	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 trotters	nmod:poss
36	fore	fore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 trotters	amod
37	trotters	trotter	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pawing	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wring	would · perfect	hogs = hog	hogs's hands	despair		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in despair=Trajectory
2	attempt	gerund					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	hogs = hog not said here			desperate property	tree rules
5	see	gerund	hogs = hog not said here	hogs = hog			tree rules
6	squat	participle	hogs = hog not said here		hogs's hams		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ham=Location
7	paw	gerund	hogs = hog not said here	the air		with hogs's fore trotters	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with trotter=Instrument

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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