Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 4

It flickered, and struggled with the duskiness, but could not half light up the gloomy cavern with all its melancholy glimmer.

Who acts: torch · What happens: flicker, struggle, not light up, glimmer · To what, where: gloomy cavern

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 (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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flickered	nsubj
2	flickered	flicker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 struggled	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 struggled	cc
5	struggled	struggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flickered	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 duskiness	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 duskiness	det
8	duskiness	duskiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struggled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 light	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 light	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 light	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 light	advmod
13	half	half	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 light	aux:pass
14	light	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flickered	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 light	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cavern	det
17	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cavern	amod
18	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 light	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	23 glimmer	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 glimmer	det:predet
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 glimmer	nmod:poss
22	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glimmer	compound
23	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cavern	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flickered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flicker	past	torch			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	struggle	participle	torch not said here		with the duskiness	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with duskiness=Co-Agent
3	not light up	could · passive		the gloomy cavern	with torch's melancholy glimmer	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: cavern=Product with glimmer=Material
4	glimmer		torch			nom glimmer «event intransitive»: 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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