Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 12

Ceres sat before the hearth with the child in her lap, and the firelight making her shadow dance upon the ceiling overhead.

Who acts: Ceres, firelight · What happens: sit, make, dance · To what, where: lap, shadow dance

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ceres, firelight), 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	Ceres	cere	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 hearth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hearth	det
5	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 lap	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lap	nmod:poss
11	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 making	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 making	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 firelight	det
15	firelight	firelight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 making	nsubj
16	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dance	nmod:poss
18	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dance	compound
19	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 making	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 ceiling	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ceiling	det
22	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 making	obl
23	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	16 making	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Ceres		child's lap	before the hearth	with the child	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before hearth=Location
2	make	gerund	the firelight	firelight's shadow dance			upon the ceiling; overhead property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dance=Product
3	dance		firelight					nom dance «communication 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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