Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 88

But when the mother asked whether her poor lost child had stopped to drink out of the fountain, the naiad, with weeping eyes (for these water-nymphs had tears to spare for everybody's grief), would answer "No!" in a murmuring voice, which was just like the murmur of the stream.

Who acts: mother, child, water nymphs, tears, murmuring voice · What happens: ask, lose, stop, drink out, have, spare · To what, where: fountain, tears, murmuring voice

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 (mother, child, water nymphs, tears), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 lost	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 asked	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	advcl
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 poor	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 poor	nmod:poss
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 asked	ccomp
9	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stopped	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stopped	aux
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 lost	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drink	mark
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stopped	xcomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 fountain	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 fountain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fountain	det
18	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drink	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 naiad	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 naiad	det
21	naiad	naiad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fountain	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eyes	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 eyes	case
24	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eyes	compound
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fountain	conj
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 nymphs	case
28	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 nymphs	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nymphs	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 water	punct
31	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stopped	parataxis
33	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 spare	mark
35	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 grief	case
37	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	39 grief	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 everybody	case
39	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spare	obl
40	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 answer	punct
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 answer	aux
43	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stopped	conj
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 No	punct
45	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	43 answer	discourse
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 No	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 No	punct
48	in	in	ADP	_	51 voice	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 voice	det
50	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 voice	compound
51	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 answer	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 murmur	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 murmur	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 murmur	cop
55	just	just	ADV	_	58 murmur	advmod
56	like	like	ADP	_	58 murmur	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 murmur	det
58	murmur	murmur	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 voice	appos
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 stream	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 stream	det
61	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 murmur	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the mother				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	past					tree rules
3	stop	past · perfect	child				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	drink out	to-infinitive	child not said here	the fountain and the naiad and weeping eyes			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Patient
5	have	past	this water nymphs	tears			tree rules
6	spare	to-infinitive	tears not said here			for everybody's grief	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
7	answer speech: assert	would	child not said here		a murmuring voice		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	a murmuring voice			like the murmur; of the stream	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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