Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 59

You would have laughed to see the children dodging in and out among his hair, or swinging from his beard.

Who acts: children · What happens: laugh, see, dodge, swing · To what, where: You, children, beard

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 laughed	aux
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laughed	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
9	dodging	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 see	xcomp
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 dodging	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 out	cc
12	out	out	ADV	_	10 in	conj
13	among	among	ADP	_	15 hair	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hair	nmod:poss
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dodging	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swinging	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 swinging	cc
18	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 dodging	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 beard	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 beard	nmod:poss
21	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swinging	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	would · perfect · passive		You			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive		the children			tree rules
3	dodge	gerund	the children not said here			among Earth's hair	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	swing	gerund	the children not said here		Earth's beard		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from beard=Trajectory

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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