Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 54

When they saw Mother Ceres, they sat down on the crest of the surf wave, and let it toss them ashore at her feet.

Who acts: heads, wave · What happens: see, sit down, let, toss · To what, where: Mother Ceres, crest, wave, heads, feet

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 (heads, wave), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	advcl
4	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ceres	compound
5	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 crest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crest	det
12	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 wave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wave	det
15	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wave	compound
16	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crest	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sat	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	toss	toss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 toss	obj
23	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	21 toss	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 feet	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feet	nmod:poss
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 toss	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	heads = head	Mother Ceres			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ceres=Stimulus
2	sit down	past	heads = head		the crest of the surf wave		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on crest=Location
3	let	infinitive	heads = head not said here	wave			tree rules
4	toss	infinitive	wave not said here	heads = head	playmate's feet	ashore property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at foot=Destination

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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