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title: The four nymphs, meanwhile, were making a most piteous ado; and espe… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The four nymphs, meanwhile, were making a most piteous ado; and especially the ocean nymph, with the sea-green hair, wept a great deal of salt water, and the fountain nymph, besides scattering dewdrops from her fingers' ends, nearly melted away into tears. Who acts: four nymphs, making. A sentence o
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 74

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The four nymphs, meanwhile, were making a most piteous ado; and especially the ocean nymph, with the sea-green hair, wept a great deal of salt water, and the fountain nymph, besides scattering dewdrops from her fingers' ends, nearly melted away into tears.

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**Who acts:** four nymphs, making · **What happens:** make, weep, scatter, melt away, deal · **To what, where:** piteous ado, great deal, dewdrops, ends, tears, salt water

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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 (four nymphs, making), 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:pg976:18:74
# text = The four nymphs, meanwhile, were making a most piteous ado; and especially the ocean nymph, with the sea-green hair, wept a great deal of salt water, and the fountain nymph, besides scattering dewdrops from her fingers' ends, nearly melted away into tears.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	csubj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	piteous	piteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ado	ado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	nymph	nymph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
27	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	nymph	nymph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	scattering	scatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
42	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	'	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	conj	_	_
51	away	away	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · progressive | the four nymphs | a piteous ado |  |  |  | the ocean nymph and the green hair *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ado=Product |
| 2 | **weep** | past | making | a great deal of salt water |  |  |  | the fountain nymph *obl* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent deal=Theme |
| 3 | **scatter** | gerund | making *not said here* | dewdrops |  |  | from water's fingers's ends |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dewdrop=Theme |
| 4 | **melt away** | participle | making *not said here* |  |  | tears |  | away, nearly *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into tear=Product |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | salt water |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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