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title: Knowing, however, that the child was fond of sporting on the sea-sho… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowing, however, that the child was fond of sporting on the sea-shore, she hastened thither as fast as she could, and there beheld the wet faces of the poor sea nymphs peeping over a wave. Who acts: child, poor sea nymphs. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate See
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 52

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Knowing, however, that the child was fond of sporting on the sea-shore, she hastened thither as fast as she could, and there beheld the wet faces of the poor sea nymphs peeping over a wave.

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**Who acts:** child, poor sea nymphs · **What happens:** know, be, sport, hasten, behold, peep · **To what, where:** sea shore, wet faces

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, poor sea nymphs), 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:pg976:21:52
# text = Knowing, however, that the child was fond of sporting on the sea-shore, she hastened thither as fast as she could, and there beheld the wet faces of the poor sea nymphs peeping over a wave.
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sporting	sport	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
38	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	over	over	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the child |  |  |  |  | fond *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sport** | gerund | the child *not said here* |  |  | the sea shore |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hasten** | past | child |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **behold** | participle | child *not said here* | the wet faces of the poor sea nymphs |  | there |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 6 | **peep** | gerund | the poor sea nymphs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over a wave | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over wave=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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