Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 26

The rowers plied their fifty oars; the white foam boiled up before the prow; the water gurgled and bubbled in their wake; while Orpheus continued to play so lively a strain of music, that the vessel seemed to dance over the billows by way of keeping time to it.

Who acts: rowers, Orpheus, vessel, way, music · What happens: ply, boil up, gurgle, bubble, continue, play · To what, where: fifty oars, white foam, water, wake, strain, billows

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (rowers, Orpheus, vessel, way), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rowers	det
2	rowers	rower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plied	nsubj
3	plied	ply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 oars	nmod:poss
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 oars	nummod
6	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plied	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 foam	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 foam	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 foam	amod
10	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plied	parataxis
11	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 foam	acl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 boiled	compound:prt
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 prow	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prow	det
15	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boiled	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 water	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foam	conj
19	gurgled	gurgle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 water	acl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bubbled	cc
21	bubbled	bubble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 gurgled	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 wake	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wake	nmod:poss
24	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bubbled	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 continued	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 continued	mark
27	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 continued	nsubj
28	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plied	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 play	mark
30	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 continued	xcomp
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 lively	advmod
32	lively	lively	ADV	_	30 play	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 strain	det
34	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 play	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 music	case
36	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 strain	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seemed	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 seemed	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 vessel	det
40	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seemed	nsubj
41	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 continued	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 dance	mark
43	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 seemed	xcomp
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 billows	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 billows	det
46	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 dance	obl
47	by	by	ADP	_	48 way	case
48	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dance	obl
49	of	of	SCONJ	_	50 keeping	mark
50	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 way	acl
51	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 keeping	obj
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 it	case
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 keeping	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 plied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ply	past	the rowers	rowers's fifty oars					vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent oar=Recipient
2	boil up	participle		the white foam and the water not said here			before the prow		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	gurgle	participle		the water not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bubble	participle				oars's wake			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wake=Location
5	continue	past	Orpheus						vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	play	to-infinitive	Orpheus not said here	a strain of music				lively property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strain=Theme
7	seem	past	the vessel						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	dance	to-infinitive	the vessel not said here			the billows		by way	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over billow=Location
9	keep	gerund	way not said here		prow		time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	strain		music						nom strain «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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