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description: And the nymph with the sea-green hair made a courtesy down to the ground, and likewise bade him welcome; so did her sister with the bodice of oaken bark, and she that sprinkled dew-drops from her fingers' ends, and the fourth one with some oddity which I cannot remember. Who acts: nymph, hand, I. A 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 22

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And the nymph with the sea-green hair made a courtesy down to the ground, and likewise bade him welcome; so did her sister with the bodice of oaken bark, and she that sprinkled dew-drops from her fingers' ends, and the fourth one with some oddity which I cannot remember.

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**Who acts:** nymph, hand, I · **What happens:** make, welcome, do, sprinkle, not remember · **To what, where:** nymph, bade, sister, dew drops, ends, oddity

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nymph, hand, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg976:18:22
# text = And the nymph with the sea-green hair made a courtesy down to the ground, and likewise bade him welcome; so did her sister with the bodice of oaken bark, and she that sprinkled dew-drops from her fingers' ends, and the fourth one with some oddity which I cannot remember.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nymph	nymph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	welcome	welcome	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	iobj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bodice	bodice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	oaken	oaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
39	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	'	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	51	amod	_	_
51	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	det	_	_
54	oddity	oddity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	obj	_	_
56	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
57	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle · passive |  | the nymph with the green hair |  |  |  | bade *obl*; down *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary courtesy=Product |
| 2 | **welcome** | present | nymph | bade *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past |  |  | hand's sister |  |  | with the bodice of oaken bark | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sprinkle** | past | hand | dew drops |  |  | from hand's fingers's ends |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent drop=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **remember** | can | I | some oddity |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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.

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**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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