Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 52

Knowing, however, that the child was fond of sporting on the sea-shore, she hastened thither as fast as she could, and there beheld the wet faces of the poor sea nymphs peeping over a wave.

Who acts: child, poor sea nymphs · What happens: know, be, sport, hasten, behold, peep · To what, where: sea shore, wet faces

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 (child, poor sea nymphs), 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	Knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 fond	csubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	1 Knowing	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fond	punct
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fond	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fond	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fond	cop
9	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 sporting	mark
11	sporting	sport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fond	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 shore	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shore	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shore	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sea	punct
16	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sporting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hastened	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hastened	nsubj
19	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fond	parataxis
20	thither	thither	ADV	_	22 fast	advmod
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 fast	advmod
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 hastened	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 could	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 could	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fast	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 beheld	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 beheld	cc
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 beheld	advmod
29	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hastened	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 faces	det
31	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 faces	amod
32	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 beheld	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 nymphs	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 nymphs	det
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 nymphs	amod
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nymphs	compound
37	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 faces	nmod
38	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 nymphs	acl
39	over	over	ADP	_	41 wave	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 wave	det
41	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 peeping	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	gerund				however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the child			fond property	tree rules
3	sport	gerund	the child not said here		the sea shore		tree rules
4	hasten	past	child			fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	behold	participle	child not said here	the wet faces of the poor sea nymphs	there		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
6	peep	gerund	the poor sea nymphs not said here			over a wave	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over wave=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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