Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 70

No sooner had they clambered up the cliff, than they discerned the tall marble towers of the palace, ascending, as white as snow, out of the lovely green shadow of the trees which surrounded it.

Who acts: friends · What happens: clamber up, discern, ascend, surround, shadow · To what, where: cliff, tall marble towers, lovely green shadow, trees

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (friends), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 clambered	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clambered	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clambered	nsubj
5	clambered	clamber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 clambered	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cliff	det
8	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clambered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 discerned	punct
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 discerned	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 discerned	nsubj
12	discerned	discern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clambered	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 towers	det
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 towers	amod
15	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 towers	compound
16	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 discerned	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 towers	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ascending	punct
21	ascending	ascend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 discerned	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 white	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 white	case
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ascending	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 snow	case
26	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 white	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shadow	punct
28	out	out	ADP	_	33 shadow	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 shadow	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shadow	det
31	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shadow	amod
32	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shadow	amod
33	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ascending	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 trees	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 trees	det
36	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 shadow	nmod
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 surrounded	nsubj:pass
38	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 trees	acl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 surrounded	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clambered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clamber up	past	friends = friend	the cliff		soon property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cliff=Theme
2	discern	past	friends = friend	the tall marble towers of the palace			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tower=Stimulus
3	ascend	gerund	friends = friend not said here		the lovely green shadow of the trees		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out shadow=Initial_Location
4	surround	participle · passive		the trees			tree rules
5	shadow			the trees			nom shadow «state 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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