Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 79

But young people's tears have very little saltness or acidity in them, and do not inflame the eyes so much as those of grown persons; so that it is not to be wondered at, if, a few moments afterwards, Proserpina was sporting through the hall almost as merrily as she and the four sea nymphs had sported along the edge of the surf wave.

Who acts: tears, few moments · What happens: have, not inflame, grow, not be, sport · To what, where: little saltness, eyes, acidity, hall, Proserpina

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 (tears, few moments), 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	_	6 have	cc
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tears	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 people	case
5	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saltness	amod
9	saltness	saltness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 acidity	cc
11	acidity	acidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saltness	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 acidity	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 inflame	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 inflame	cc
16	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 inflame	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 inflame	advmod
18	inflame	inflame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eyes	det
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 inflame	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADV	_	18 inflame	advmod
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 those	case
24	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 much	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 persons	case
26	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 persons	amod
27	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 those	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 wondered	punct
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 wondered	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wondered	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 wondered	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 wondered	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	36 wondered	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 wondered	aux:pass
36	wondered	wonder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 have	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	36 wondered	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sporting	punct
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 sporting	mark
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 moments	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 moments	det
42	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 moments	amod
43	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sporting	nsubj
44	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	43 moments	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 moments	punct
46	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 sporting	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 sporting	aux
48	sporting	sport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 wondered	advcl
49	through	through	ADP	_	51 hall	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 hall	det
51	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sporting	obl
52	almost	almost	ADV	_	54 merrily	advmod
53	as	as	ADV	_	54 merrily	advmod
54	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	48 sporting	advmod
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	63 sported	mark
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 sported	nsubj:pass
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 nymphs	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 nymphs	det
59	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	61 nymphs	nummod
60	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 nymphs	compound
61	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 she	conj
62	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 sported	aux
63	sported	sport	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 merrily	advcl
64	along	along	ADP	_	66 edge	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 edge	det
66	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 sported	obl
67	of	of	ADP	_	70 wave	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 wave	det
69	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 wave	compound
70	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 edge	nmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	young people's tears	little saltness or acidity in saltness			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saltness=Patient
2	not inflame	infinitive · do-support	young people's tears not said here	the eyes			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	present · passive		acidity		wonder property	tree rules
5	sport a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	a few moments		the hall	merrily property	tree rules
6	sport	past · perfect · passive		Proserpina		along the edge of the surf wave	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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