Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 11

They knew Proserpina's voice, and were not long in showing their glistening faces and sea-green hair above the water, at the bottom of which was their home.

Who acts: dragons · What happens: know, not be, show, glisten, be · To what, where: voice, glistening faces, bottom, home

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragons), 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	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 voice	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Proserpina	case
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 long	cc
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 long	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	conj
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 showing	mark
12	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 long	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 faces	nmod:poss
14	glistening	glisten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 faces	amod
15	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 showing	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hair	cc
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hair	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 sea	punct
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hair	amod
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showing	conj
21	above	above	ADP	_	23 water	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hair	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bottom	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 bottom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bottom	det
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showing	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 home	obl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 home	cop
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 home	nmod:poss
32	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bottom	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	dragons = dragon	Proserpina's voice			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	not is	past	dragons = dragon not said here			long property	tree rules
3	show	gerund	dragons = dragon not said here	dragons's glistening faces	the bottom		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Recipient
4	glisten	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past		dragons's home		of the bottom	tree rules

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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