Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 30

The torchlight seemed to make a gloom; so that the people whom they met, along the road, could not very distinctly see their figures; and, indeed, if they once caught a glimpse of Hecate, with the wreath of snakes round her forehead, they generally thought it prudent to run away, without waiting for a second glance.

Who acts: torchlight, people · What happens: seem, make, meet, not see, catch, think · To what, where: gloom, people, figures, glimpse, Hecate

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 (torchlight, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 torchlight	det
2	torchlight	torchlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gloom	det
7	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 thought	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	53 thought	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 see	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	nsubj
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 met	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
15	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 people	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 road	punct
17	along	along	ADP	_	19 road	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 road	det
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 people	punct
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 see	advmod
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 distinctly	advmod
24	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	25 see	advmod
25	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 thought	advcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 figures	nmod:poss
27	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 indeed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 indeed	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 and	punct
31	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	25 see	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 caught	punct
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 caught	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 caught	nsubj
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 caught	advmod
36	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 glimpse	det
38	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 caught	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Hecate	case
40	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 glimpse	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 wreath	punct
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 wreath	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 wreath	det
44	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 caught	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 snakes	case
46	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 wreath	nmod
47	round	round	ADP	_	49 forehead	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 forehead	nmod:poss
49	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wreath	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 thought	nsubj
52	generally	generally	ADV	_	53 thought	advmod
53	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 thought	obj
55	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 thought	xcomp
56	to	to	PART	_	57 run	mark
57	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 prudent	xcomp
58	away	away	ADV	_	57 run	advmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 waiting	punct
60	without	without	SCONJ	_	61 waiting	mark
61	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 thought	advcl
62	for	for	ADP	_	65 glance	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 glance	det
64	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	65 glance	amod
65	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 waiting	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the torchlight			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	make	to-infinitive	the torchlight not said here	a gloom		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gloom=Product
3	meet	past	people	the people	along the road	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent
4	not see	could	the people	people's figures	distinctly, indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus
5	catch a condition, not said to happen	past	people	a glimpse of Hecate	with the wreath of snakes round Hecate's forehead; once property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	people	glimpse	generally, prudent property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
7	run away	to-infinitive	people not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	wait	gerund	people not said here		for a second glance	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	figure		people			nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent
10	glimpse			Hecate		nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient

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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