Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 29

It was splendidly illuminated by means of large precious stones, of various hues, which seemed to burn like so many lamps, and glowed with a hundred-fold radiance all through the vast apartment.

Who acts: various hues · What happens: illuminate, mean, seem, burn, glow · To what, where: flight, vast apartment

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (various hues), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 illuminated	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 illuminated	aux:pass
3	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	4 illuminated	advmod
4	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 means	nsubj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 means	case
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 stones	case
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stones	amod
9	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stones	amod
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 means	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hues	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hues	case
13	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hues	amod
14	hues	hue	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stones	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hues	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 burn	mark
19	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seemed	xcomp
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 lamps	case
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 many	advmod
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lamps	amod
23	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 burn	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 glowed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 glowed	cc
26	glowed	glow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 seemed	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	32 radiance	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 radiance	det
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 fold	nummod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 hundred	punct
31	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 radiance	compound
32	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 glowed	obl
33	all	all	ADV	_	37 apartment	advmod
34	through	through	ADP	_	37 apartment	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 apartment	det
36	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 apartment	amod
37	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 glowed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	illuminate	past · passive		flight		splendidly property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	mean	present				of large precious stones	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	various hues				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	burn	to-infinitive	various hues not said here			like many lamps	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	glow	participle	various hues not said here		the vast apartment	with a fold radiance	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through apartment=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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