Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 18

There had been some few dances upon the undulating deck, I suspect, and some hearty bursts of laughter, and other such unseasonable merriment among the victims, before the high blue mountains of Crete began to show themselves among the far-off clouds.

Who acts: I, high blue mountains · What happens: have, be, undulate, suspect, begin, show · To what, where: hearty bursts, few dances, mountains, laughter

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (I, high blue mountains), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 had	expl
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 dances	cop
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 dances	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dances	amod
6	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 deck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 deck	det
9	undulating	undulate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 deck	amod
10	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dances	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 suspect	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 suspect	nsubj
13	suspect	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bursts	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bursts	cc
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 bursts	det
17	hearty	hearty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bursts	amod
18	bursts	burst	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 laughter	case
20	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bursts	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 merriment	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 merriment	cc
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 merriment	amod
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 merriment	amod
25	unseasonable	unseasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 merriment	amod
26	merriment	merriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
27	among	among	ADP	_	29 victims	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 victims	det
29	victims	victim	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 merriment	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mountains	punct
31	before	before	ADP	_	35 mountains	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mountains	det
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mountains	amod
34	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mountains	amod
35	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 began	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Crete	case
37	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 mountains	nmod
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 show	mark
40	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 began	xcomp
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 show	obj
42	among	among	ADP	_	47 clouds	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 clouds	det
44	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 off	amod
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 far	punct
46	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 clouds	compound
47	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 show	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past		some hearty bursts of laughter	there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle		some few dances		upon the undulating deck	tree rules
3	undulate	gerund					vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	suspect	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past	the high blue mountains of Crete				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	show	to-infinitive	the high blue mountains of Crete not said here	mountains = mountain		among the off clouds	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient
7	burst			laughter			nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient

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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