Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 12

Never in her life had she beheld so torpid, so black, so muddy-looking a stream; its waters reflected no images of anything that was on the banks, and it moved as sluggishly as if it had quite forgotten which way it ought to flow, and had rather stagnate than flow either one way or the other.

Who acts: stream, waters, life · What happens: not have, behold, look, reflect, be, move · To what, where: stream, life, images, banks, one way, anything

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, waters, life), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 had	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 life	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 life	nmod:poss
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	obj
7	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	xcomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 torpid	advmod
9	torpid	torpid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beheld	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 black	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 black	advmod
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 looking	advmod
15	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looking	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 muddy	punct
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 black	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stream	det
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 reflected	punct
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 waters	nmod:poss
22	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 reflected	nsubj
23	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 images	det
25	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 reflected	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 anything	case
27	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 images	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 banks	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 banks	cop
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 banks	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 banks	det
32	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 anything	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 moved	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 moved	cc
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 moved	nsubj
36	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 reflected	conj
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 sluggishly	advmod
38	sluggishly	sluggishly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 moved	xcomp
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 forgotten	mark
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 forgotten	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 forgotten	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 forgotten	aux
43	quite	quite	ADV	_	44 forgotten	advmod
44	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 moved	advcl
45	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	46 way	det
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 forgotten	obl:unmarked
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 flow	nsubj
48	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 flow	aux
49	to	to	PART	_	50 flow	mark
50	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 way	acl:relcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 stagnate	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 stagnate	cc
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 stagnate	aux
54	rather	rather	ADV	_	55 stagnate	advmod
55	stagnate	stagnate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 reflected	conj
56	than	than	SCONJ	_	57 flow	mark
57	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 stagnate	xcomp
58	either	either	CCONJ	_	60 way	cc:preconj
59	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	60 way	nummod
60	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 flow	obj
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	63 other	cc
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 other	det
63	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 way	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not have	past		stream	stream's life		tree rules
2	behold	participle	stream not said here			torpid property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	look	gerund		a stream			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stream=Attribute
4	reflect	past	life's waters	no images of anything			tree rules
5	is	past			the banks		tree rules
6	move	past	life			sluggishly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	forget	past · perfect · passive		life		which way obl:unmarked	tree rules
8	flow	ought	life				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	stagnate	past	life's waters not said here				tree rules
10	flow	infinitive	life's waters not said here	one way			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
11	image			anything			nom image «cognition 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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