Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 22

And the nymph with the sea-green hair made a courtesy down to the ground, and likewise bade him welcome; so did her sister with the bodice of oaken bark, and she that sprinkled dew-drops from her fingers' ends, and the fourth one with some oddity which I cannot remember.

Who acts: nymph, hand, I · What happens: make, welcome, do, sprinkle, not remember · To what, where: nymph, bade, sister, dew drops, ends, oddity

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 (nymph, hand, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nymph	det
3	nymph	nymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj:pass
4	with	with	ADP	_	9 hair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hair	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 green	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sea	punct
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nymph	nmod
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 courtesy	det
12	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	down	down	ADV	_	10 made	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 down	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bade	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bade	cc
19	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	20 bade	advmod
20	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 welcome	nsubj
22	welcome	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	20 bade	acl:relcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 did	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 did	advmod
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	parataxis
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sister	nmod:poss
27	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 did	iobj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 bodice	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bodice	det
30	bodice	bodice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 did	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 bark	case
32	oaken	oaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bark	amod
33	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bodice	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sprinkled	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sprinkled	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sprinkled	nsubj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 sprinkled	nsubj
38	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 did	conj
39	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drops	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 dew	punct
41	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sprinkled	obj
42	from	from	ADP	_	46 ends	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 fingers	nmod:poss
44	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 ends	nmod:poss
45	'	's	PART	_	44 fingers	case
46	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sprinkled	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 one	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 one	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 one	det
50	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	51 one	amod
51	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	parataxis
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 oddity	case
53	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	54 oddity	det
54	oddity	oddity	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 one	nmod
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 remember	obj
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 remember	nsubj
57	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 remember	aux
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 remember	advmod
59	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 oddity	acl:relcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle · passive		the nymph with the green hair			bade obl; down property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary courtesy=Product
2	welcome	present	nymph	bade not said here				vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Theme
3	do	past			hand's sister		with the bodice of oaken bark	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Eventuality
4	sprinkle	past	hand	dew drops		from hand's fingers's ends		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent drop=Theme
5	not remember	can	I	some oddity				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme

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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