Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 68

Another instant, and even the summit of Mount Aetna had become so blue in the distance, that she could scarcely distinguish it from the smoke that gushed out of its crater.

Who acts: summit, smoke · What happens: become, distinguish, gush · To what, where: distance, crater

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (summit, smoke), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 instant	det
2	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 become	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 become	cc
5	even	even	ADV	_	7 summit	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 summit	det
7	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 become	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Mount	case
9	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 summit	nmod
10	Aetna	Aetna	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mount	flat
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
12	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 instant	parataxis
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 blue	advmod
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 become	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 distance	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 distance	det
17	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blue	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 distinguish	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 distinguish	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 distinguish	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 distinguish	aux
22	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	23 distinguish	advmod
23	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 become	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 distinguish	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 smoke	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 smoke	det
27	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 distinguish	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 gushed	nsubj
29	gushed	gush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 smoke	acl:relcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 crater	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 crater	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 crater	nmod:poss
33	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gushed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 instant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	the summit of Mount			blue property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	distinguish	could	summit	distance		from the smoke; scarcely property	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme from smoke=Co-Theme
3	gush	past	the smoke		smoke's crater		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out crater=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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