Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 104
At no great distance, they beheld a river gleaming in the sunshine.
Who acts: hills, river · What happens: behold, gleam · To what, where: river, sunshine
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hills, river), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 distance | case |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 distance | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 distance | amod |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beheld | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 distance | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beheld | nsubj |
| 7 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beheld | obj |
| 10 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 river | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sunshine | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sunshine | det |
| 13 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gleaming | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | hills = hill | a river | at no great distance | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | gleam | gerund | a river not said here | the sunshine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |
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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