Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 4

Yes, and at some of his more moving tunes, the rocks bestirred their moss-grown bulk out of the ground, and a grove of forest trees uprooted themselves, and, nodding their tops to one another, performed a country dance.

Who acts: rocks, grove · What happens: move, bestir, grow, uproot, nod, perform · To what, where: grown bulk, ground, trees, some, tops, one

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 (rocks, grove), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	31 uprooted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 uprooted	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 uprooted	cc
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 some	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 uprooted	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 tunes	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tunes	nmod:poss
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 tunes	amod
9	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 tunes	amod
10	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 some	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rocks	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rocks	det
13	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tunes	conj
14	bestirred	bestir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 rocks	acl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bulk	nmod:poss
16	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grown	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 moss	punct
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 bulk	amod
19	bulk	bulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bestirred	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 ground	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bestirred	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 uprooted	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 uprooted	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 grove	det
27	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 uprooted	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 trees	case
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trees	compound
30	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grove	nmod
31	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 uprooted	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 nodding	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 nodding	cc
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 nodding	punct
36	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 uprooted	advcl
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 tops	nmod:poss
38	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 nodding	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 one	case
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 nodding	obl
41	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	40 one	fixed
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 performed	punct
43	performed	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 uprooted	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 dance	det
45	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 dance	compound
46	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 performed	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 uprooted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	move	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	bestir	participle	the rocks not said here	rocks's grown bulk		the ground	tree rules
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	uproot	past	a grove of forest trees	trees = tree		some	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
5	nod	gerund	a grove of forest trees not said here	trees's tops	one		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent top=Theme to one=Recipient
6	perform	past	a grove of forest trees not said here	a country dance			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/4/