Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 74
The four nymphs, meanwhile, were making a most piteous ado; and especially the ocean nymph, with the sea-green hair, wept a great deal of salt water, and the fountain nymph, besides scattering dewdrops from her fingers' ends, nearly melted away into tears.
Who acts: four nymphs, making · What happens: make, weep, scatter, melt away, deal · To what, where: piteous ado, great deal, dewdrops, ends, tears, salt water
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 (four nymphs, making), 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 | 3 nymphs | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 nymphs | nummod |
| 3 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 making | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 meanwhile | punct |
| 5 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 nymphs | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nymphs | punct |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 making | aux |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 wept | csubj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ado | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 piteous | advmod |
| 11 | piteous | piteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ado | amod |
| 12 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 nymph | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nymph | cc |
| 15 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 18 nymph | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nymph | det |
| 17 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nymph | compound |
| 18 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hair | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 hair | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hair | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 green | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sea | punct |
| 24 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hair | amod |
| 25 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nymph | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 making | punct |
| 27 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 deal | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 deal | amod |
| 30 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wept | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 water | case |
| 32 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 water | compound |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 deal | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 nymph | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 nymph | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 nymph | det |
| 37 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 nymph | compound |
| 38 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wept | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 scattering | punct |
| 40 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 41 scattering | mark |
| 41 | scattering | scatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 wept | advcl |
| 42 | dewdrops | dewdrop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 scattering | obj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 ends | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 45 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 ends | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 45 fingers | case |
| 47 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 scattering | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 melted | punct |
| 49 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 50 melted | advmod |
| 50 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 scattering | conj |
| 51 | away | away | ADV | _ | 50 melted | advmod |
| 52 | into | into | ADP | _ | 53 tears | case |
| 53 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 melted | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | the four nymphs | a piteous ado | the ocean nymph and the green hair obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ado=Product | |||
| 2 | weep | past | making | a great deal of salt water | the fountain nymph obl | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent deal=Theme | |||
| 3 | scatter | gerund | making not said here | dewdrops | from water's fingers's ends | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dewdrop=Theme | |||
| 4 | melt away | participle | making not said here | tears | away, nearly property | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into tear=Product | |||
| 5 | deal | salt water | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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