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

On the tenth day, she chanced to espy the mouth of a cavern within which (though it was bright noon everywhere else) there would have been only a dusky twilight; but it so happened that a torch was burning there.

Who acts: Mother, mouth, it, torch · What happens: chance, espy, be, happen, burn · To what, where: mouth, bright noon, dusky twilight

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, mouth, it, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	tenth	tenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chanced	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chanced	nsubj
7	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 espy	mark
9	espy	espy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 chanced	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mouth	det
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 espy	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cavern	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cavern	det
14	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mouth	nmod
15	within	within	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 espy	advcl:relcl
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 noon	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 noon	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 noon	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 noon	cop
21	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 noon	amod
22	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 which	appos
23	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 noon	advmod
24	else	else	ADV	_	23 everywhere	advmod
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 noon	punct
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 noon	advmod
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 twilight	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 twilight	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 twilight	cop
30	only	only	ADV	_	33 twilight	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 twilight	det
32	dusky	dusky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 twilight	amod
33	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 noon	parataxis
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 happened	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 happened	cc
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 happened	nsubj
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 happened	advmod
38	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chanced	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 burning	mark
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 torch	det
41	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 burning	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 burning	aux
43	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 happened	advcl
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 burning	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chance	past	Mother			day		vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	espy	to-infinitive	Mother not said here	the mouth of a cavern				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouth=Stimulus
3	is a	past	mouth	bright noon	there		everywhere property	tree rules
4	is a	would · perfect		a dusky twilight				tree rules
5	happen	past	it					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	burn	past · progressive	a torch		there			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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