Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 92

When she stopped to question them, they would only laugh the louder, and make new merriment out of the lone woman's distress.

Who acts: child, faces, lone woman · What happens: stop, question, laugh, make, distress · To what, where: faces, new merriment, distress

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 (child, faces, lone woman), 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 stopped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 question	mark
5	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stopped	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 question	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laugh	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	aux
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 laugh	advmod
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 louder	det
13	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 laugh	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 make	cc
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 laugh	conj
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 merriment	amod
18	merriment	merriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	25 distress	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	25 distress	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 distress	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 woman	case
25	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stop	past	child			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	question speech: other	to-infinitive	child not said here	faces = face		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	laugh	would	faces = face			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	infinitive	faces = face not said here	new merriment	the lone woman's distress	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset merriment=Product
5	distress		the lone woman			nom distress «feeling transitive»: 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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