Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 45

She cast a glance around, and caught a glimpse of Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, who were still in pursuit of the butterfly, almost at the other end of the meadow.

Who acts: child, Cilix · What happens: cast around, catch, be, glimpse · To what, where: glance, glimpse, other end, pursuit, Cadmus

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, Cilix), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cast	nsubj
2	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 glance	det
4	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cast	obj
5	around	around	ADV	_	2 cast	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 caught	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 caught	cc
8	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cast	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 glimpse	det
10	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caught	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Cadmus	case
12	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 glimpse	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Phoenix	punct
14	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Cadmus	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Cilix	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Cilix	cc
17	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 caught	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pursuit	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 pursuit	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pursuit	cop
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 pursuit	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 pursuit	case
23	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Cilix	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 butterfly	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 butterfly	det
26	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pursuit	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 end	punct
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 end	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 end	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 end	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 end	amod
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caught	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 meadow	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 meadow	det
35	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 end	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast around	past	child	a glance			around property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glance=Product
2	catch	past	child not said here	a glimpse of Cadmus and Phoenix		at the other end of the meadow	Cilix obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme at end=Asset
3	is	past	Cilix		pursuit	still	of the butterfly	tree rules
4	glimpse			Cadmus and Phoenix				nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

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