Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 33

All at once, Cadmus fancied he saw something glisten very brightly, first at one spot, then at another, and then at a hundred and a thousand spots together.

Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: fancy, see, glisten · To what, where: hundred thousand spots, one spot, something

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (Cadmus), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 Cadmus	det
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 All	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 All	punct
5	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fancied	nsubj
6	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fancied	ccomp
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 saw	obj
10	glisten	glisten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 something	acl:relcl
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 brightly	advmod
12	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	10 glisten	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spot	punct
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 spot	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 spot	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 spot	nummod
17	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fancied	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 another	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 another	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 another	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 fancied	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 spots	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 spots	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 hundred	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 hundred	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hundred	det
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 spots	nummod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 spots	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 spots	det
30	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 spots	nummod
31	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fancied	obl
32	together	together	ADV	_	31 spots	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	all Cadmus	a hundred thousand spots	one spot		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	past	Cadmus	something			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	glisten	present				brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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