Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 9

They soon entered a broad pathway, which seemed to be very neatly kept, and which went winding along, with streaks of sunshine falling across it and specks of light quivering among the deepest shadows that fell from the lofty trees.

Who acts: glimpses, broad pathway, streaks, light, deepest shadows · What happens: enter, seem, keep, go, wind, fall · To what, where: broad pathway, sunshine, deepest shadows, lofty trees

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (glimpses, broad pathway, streaks, light), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 entered	advmod
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pathway	det
5	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pathway	amod
6	pathway	pathway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pathway	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	14 kept	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 kept	aux:pass
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 neatly	advmod
13	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	14 kept	advmod
14	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 seemed	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	parataxis
19	winding	wind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 went	xcomp
20	along	along	ADV	_	19 winding	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 streaks	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 streaks	case
23	streaks	streak	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 winding	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 sunshine	case
25	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 streaks	nmod
26	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 streaks	acl
27	across	across	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 falling	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 specks	cc
30	specks	speck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 light	case
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 specks	obl
33	quivering	quiver	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 light	acl
34	among	among	ADP	_	37 shadows	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shadows	det
36	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 shadows	amod
37	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 quivering	obl
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 fell	nsubj
39	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 shadows	acl:relcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	43 trees	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 trees	det
42	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 trees	amod
43	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 fell	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	glimpses = glimpse	a broad pathway		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pathway=Destination
2	seem	past	a broad pathway				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	keep	to-infinitive · passive	a broad pathway not said here			neatly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»
4	go	past					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wind	gerund				with streaks of sunshine; along property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	fall	gerund	streaks of sunshine not said here		sunshine		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across it=Initial_Location
7	speck	present				of light	tree rules
8	quiver	gerund	light not said here		the deepest shadows		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among shadow=Location
9	fall	past	the deepest shadows		the lofty trees		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_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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