--- title: Looking into its bosom, they beheld their own faces dimly reflected,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Looking into its bosom, they beheld their own faces dimly reflected, but so extravagantly distorted by the gush and motion of the water, that each one of them appeared to be laughing at himself and all his companions. Who acts: others, own faces, one, liquor. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, own faces, one, liquor), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:16:17 # text = Looking into its bosom, they beheld their own faces dimly reflected, but so extravagantly distorted by the gush and motion of the water, that each one of them appeared to be laughing at himself and all his companions. 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 2 into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 dimly dimly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 reflected reflect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 extravagantly extravagantly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 distorted distort VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 gush gush NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 motion motion NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ _ 32 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux _ _ 35 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 41 det:predet _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | others *= other* *not said here* | | | | | into liquor's bosom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into bosom=Theme | | 2 | **behold** | past | others *= other* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **reflect** | past | others's own faces | | | | | dimly *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **distort** | participle | others *= other* *not said here* | | | | | by the gush and motion of the water; extravagantly *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 5 | **appear** | past | each one of others | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **laugh** | to-infinitive · progressive | each one of others *not said here* | | | | | at garden | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **bosom** | | liquor | | | | | | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **motion** | | the water | | | | | | nom motion «communication 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/18/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/)