Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 53

All this while, the good creatures had been waiting on the bank of sponge, and once, every half minute or so, had popped up their four heads above water, to see if their playmate were yet coming back.

Who acts: while, playmate · What happens: wait, pop up, see, come back · To what, where: bank, four heads, water

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 (while, playmate), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 while	det:predet
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waiting	nsubj:outer
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waiting	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creatures	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creatures	amod
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 waiting	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 waiting	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 waiting	aux
10	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 bank	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bank	det
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waiting	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 sponge	case
15	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bank	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 minute	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 minute	cc
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 minute	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 minute	punct
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 minute	det
21	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	22 minute	compound
22	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waiting	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 so	cc
24	so	so	ADV	_	22 minute	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 popped	punct
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 popped	aux
27	popped	pop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 waiting	advcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 popped	compound:prt
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heads	nmod:poss
30	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 heads	nummod
31	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 popped	obj
32	above	above	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 popped	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 see	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 popped	conj
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 coming	mark
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 playmate	nmod:poss
39	playmate	playmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 coming	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 coming	aux
41	yet	yet	ADV	_	42 coming	advmod
42	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 see	ccomp
43	back	back	ADV	_	42 coming	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wait	past · perfect · progressive	all while		the bank of sponge	minute	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location
2	pop up	past · perfect	all while not said here	banks's four heads	water		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	all while not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come back a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	waters's playmate			yet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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