Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 86

Then, going a little farther, Ceres would, perhaps, come to a fountain, gushing out of a pebbly hollow in the earth, and would dabble with her hand in the water.

Who acts: Ceres · What happens: go, come, gush, dabble · To what, where: fountain, pebbly hollow, 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 (Ceres), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 going	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 come	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 farther	obl
6	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 going	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
8	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 would	punct
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 perhaps	punct
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 fountain	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fountain	det
16	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gushing	punct
18	gushing	gush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 come	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	23 hollow	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 hollow	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hollow	det
22	pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hollow	amod
23	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gushing	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 earth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 earth	det
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hollow	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dabble	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dabble	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 dabble	aux
30	dabble	dabble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 hand	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hand	nmod:poss
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dabble	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 water	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dabble	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	Ceres not said here		then	far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	would	Ceres	a fountain		perhaps property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fountain=Initial_Location
3	gush	gerund	Ceres not said here	a pebbly hollow in the earth			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hollow=Location
4	dabble	would	Ceres not said here	the water		with child's hand	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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