Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 91

But sometimes she same suddenly upon a rude gang of satyrs, who had faces like monkeys, and horses' tails behind them, and who were generally dancing in a very boisterous manner, with shouts of noisy laughter.

Who acts: satyrs · What happens: have, dance, shout · To what, where: faces, boisterous manner

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 (satyrs), 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	_	4 same	cc
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 same	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 same	nsubj
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 same	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 gang	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gang	det
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gang	amod
9	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 same	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 satyrs	case
11	satyrs	satyr	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gang	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 satyrs	acl:relcl
15	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 monkeys	case
17	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 faces	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tails	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tails	cc
20	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tails	nmod:poss
21	'	's	PART	_	20 horses	case
22	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obl
23	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tails	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dancing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dancing	cc
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 dancing	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dancing	aux
29	generally	generally	ADV	_	30 dancing	advmod
30	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 had	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 manner	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 manner	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 boisterous	advmod
34	boisterous	boisterous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 manner	amod
35	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dancing	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shouts	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 shouts	case
38	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 dancing	advcl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 laughter	case
40	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 laughter	amod
41	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shouts	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	satyrs	faces		like monkeys; horses's tails behind horns obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	dance	past · progressive			a boisterous manner	generally property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location
3	shout speech: express	present				of noisy laughter	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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