Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 15

At last, while the baby was crowing, and clapping its fat little hands, and laughing in the nurse's face (just as you may have seen your little brother or sister do before going into its warm bath), Ceres suddenly laid him, all naked as he was, in the hollow among the red-hot embers.

Who acts: baby, you, Ceres, backlog · What happens: crow, clap, laugh, see, do, go · To what, where: fat little hands, little brother, last, warm bath, backlog, hollow

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 (baby, you, Ceres, backlog), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 do	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crowing	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 crowing	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crowing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crowing	aux
8	crowing	crow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 last	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 clapping	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 clapping	cc
11	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 crowing	conj
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
13	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hands	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hands	amod
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 clapping	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laughing	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laughing	cc
18	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 crowing	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 face	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nurse	det
21	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 face	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 nurse	case
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laughing	obl
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 seen	punct
25	just	just	ADV	_	30 seen	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 seen	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 seen	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 seen	aux
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 laughing	advcl
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brother	nmod:poss
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 brother	amod
33	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seen	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 sister	cc
35	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brother	conj
36	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 going	mark
38	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 do	advcl
39	into	into	ADP	_	42 bath	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 bath	nmod:poss
41	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 bath	amod
42	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 going	obl
43	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 going	punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 laid	punct
45	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 laid	nsubj
46	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	47 laid	advmod
47	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 do	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 laid	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 naked	punct
50	all	all	ADV	_	51 naked	advmod
51	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 laid	xcomp
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 hollow	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 hollow	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 hollow	cop
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 hollow	punct
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 hollow	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 hollow	det
58	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 naked	advcl
59	among	among	ADP	_	64 embers	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 embers	det
61	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 hot	amod
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	61 red	punct
63	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 embers	amod
64	embers	ember	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 hollow	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crow	past · progressive	the baby				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	clap	gerund	the baby not said here	baby's fat little hands			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
3	laugh	gerund	the baby not said here			in the nurse's face	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme
4	see	may · perfect	you	your little brother or sister			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
5	do	present			last		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	gerund			baby's warm bath		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bath=Initial_Location
7	lay	past	Ceres	backlog		naked, suddenly property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result
8	is	past	backlog		the hollow	among the hot embers	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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