Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 2

All day she traveled onward through the hot sun; and, at night again, the flame of the torch would redden and gleam along the pathway, and she continued her search by its light, without ever sitting down to rest.

Who acts: Mother, flame, torch · What happens: travel, redden, gleam, continue, sit down, rest · To what, where: hot sun, pathway, search

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, flame, torch), 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	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 traveled	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 traveled	nsubj
4	traveled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	onward	onward	ADV	_	4 traveled	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sun	amod
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 traveled	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 night	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 night	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 redden	obl:unmarked
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 night	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flame	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flame	det
18	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 redden	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 torch	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 torch	det
21	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flame	nmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 redden	aux
23	redden	redden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 traveled	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gleam	cc
25	gleam	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 redden	conj
26	along	along	ADP	_	28 pathway	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pathway	det
28	pathway	pathway	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gleam	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 continued	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 continued	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 continued	nsubj
32	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 traveled	parataxis
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 search	nmod:poss
34	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 continued	obj
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 light	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 light	nmod:poss
37	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 continued	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sitting	punct
39	without	without	SCONJ	_	41 sitting	mark
40	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 sitting	advmod
41	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 continued	advcl
42	down	down	ADV	_	41 sitting	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 rest	mark
44	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 sitting	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 traveled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	Mother		the hot sun	day	onward property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through sun=Trajectory
2	redden	would	the flame of the torch			night		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	gleam	infinitive	the flame of the torch not said here		the pathway			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along pathway=Location
4	continue	past	Mother	Mother's search			by flame's light	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent search=Theme
5	sit down	gerund	Mother not said here			ever	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rest	to-infinitive	Mother not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	flame		the torch					nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent
8	search		Mother					nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent
9	light		flame					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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