Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 87

Behold, up through its sandy and pebbly bed, along with the fountain's gush, a young woman with dripping hair would arise, and stand gazing at Mother Ceres, half out of the water, and undulating up and down with its ever-restless motion.

Who acts: young woman, fountain · What happens: drip, arise, stand, gaze, undulate, gush · To what, where: hair, gush, 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 (young woman, fountain), 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	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	9 bed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bed	punct
3	up	up	ADV	_	9 bed	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	9 bed	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bed	nmod:poss
6	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bed	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pebbly	cc
8	pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sandy	conj
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gush	punct
11	along	along	ADP	_	16 gush	case
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 gush	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fountain	det
14	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gush	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 fountain	case
16	gush	gush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 woman	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 arise	nsubj
21	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 dripping	mark
22	dripping	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 woman	acl
23	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dripping	obj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 arise	aux
25	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gush	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stand	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stand	cc
28	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 arise	advcl
29	gazing	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 stand	xcomp
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 Mother	case
31	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 gazing	obl
32	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Mother	flat
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 water	punct
34	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	38 water	advmod
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 water	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 water	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 water	det
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gazing	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 undulating	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 undulating	cc
41	undulating	undulate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 arise	advcl
42	up	up	ADV	_	41 undulating	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 down	cc
44	down	down	ADV	_	42 up	conj
45	with	with	ADP	_	50 motion	case
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 motion	nmod:poss
47	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	49 restless	advmod
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 ever	punct
49	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 motion	amod
50	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 undulating	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drip	gerund	a young woman not said here	hair			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Source
2	arise	would	a young woman	the fountain's gush not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gush=Theme
3	stand	present	a young woman not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	gaze	gerund	a young woman not said here		the water	at Mother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mother=Theme
5	undulate	gerund	a young woman not said here			with fountain's restless motion	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	gush		the fountain				nom gush «event intransitive»: poss=agent
7	motion		fountain				nom motion «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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