Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 15
The up-gushing water had now again taken the shape of a man in a long, white, fleecy robe, who appeared to be making gestures of welcome.
Who acts: long fleecy robe, welcome · What happens: gush, take, appear, make, gesture · To what, where: gushing water, long fleecy robe, gestures
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long fleecy robe, welcome), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 2 | up | up | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gushing | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 up | punct |
| 4 | gushing | gush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 taken | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 taken | advmod |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shape | det |
| 11 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shape | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 robe | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 robe | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 robe | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 white | punct |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 long | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 long | punct |
| 21 | fleecy | fleecy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 robe | amod |
| 22 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 appeared | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 appeared | nsubj |
| 25 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 robe | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 making | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 making | aux |
| 28 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 appeared | advcl |
| 29 | gestures | gesture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 making | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 welcome | case |
| 31 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gestures | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gush | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | the gushing water | a long fleecy robe | now; again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme shape=Destination | |||
| 3 | appear | past | a long fleecy robe | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive · progressive | a long fleecy robe not said here | gestures of welcome | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gesture=Product | ||||
| 5 | gesture | welcome | 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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