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title: Behold, up through its sandy and pebbly bed, along with the fountain… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, up through its sandy and pebbly bed, along with the fountain's gush, a young woman with dripping hair would arise, and stand gazing at Mother Ceres, half out of the water, and undulating up and down with its ever-restless motion. Who acts: young woman, fountain. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tal
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 87

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Behold, up through its sandy and pebbly bed, along with the fountain's gush, a young woman with dripping hair would arise, and stand gazing at Mother Ceres, half out of the water, and undulating up and down with its ever-restless motion.

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**Who acts:** young woman, fountain · **What happens:** drip, arise, stand, gaze, undulate, gush · **To what, where:** hair, gush, water

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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 (young woman, fountain), 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:pg976:21:87
# text = Behold, up through its sandy and pebbly bed, along with the fountain's gush, a young woman with dripping hair would arise, and stand gazing at Mother Ceres, half out of the water, and undulating up and down with its ever-restless motion.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	gush	gush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	38	advmod	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	undulating	undulate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
42	up	up	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	down	down	ADV	RB	_	42	conj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
46	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
47	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drip** | gerund | a young woman *not said here* | hair |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Source |
| 2 | **arise** | would | a young woman | the fountain's gush *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gush=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | present | a young woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **gaze** | gerund | a young woman *not said here* |  |  | the water |  | at Mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mother=Theme |
| 5 | **undulate** | gerund | a young woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fountain's restless motion | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **gush** |  | the fountain |  |  |  |  |  | nom gush «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **motion** |  | fountain |  |  |  |  |  | nom motion «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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