Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 94
Then, indeed, she would stand and gaze at them with tears in her eyes.
Who acts: Ceres · What happens: stand, gaze
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. 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 | 7 stand | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 stand | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | aux |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gaze | cc |
| 9 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stand | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gaze | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 tears | case |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gaze | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tears | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | would | Ceres | then | indeed property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | gaze | infinitive | Ceres not said here | at farmers = farmer; with tears in Ceres's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
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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