Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 6

In so doing, she caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a woman, sitting on the brown leaves of the last autumn, a great heap of which had been swept into the cave by the wind.

Who acts: Ceres, glimpse, wind · What happens: do, catch, seem, be, sit, sweep · To what, where: woman, brown leaves, cave

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 (Ceres, glimpse, wind), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	3 doing	mark
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 doing	advmod
3	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 caught	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 doing	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	nsubj
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 glimpse	det
8	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 glimpse	nmod
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	15 woman	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 woman	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sitting	punct
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 seemed	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 leaves	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 leaves	det
20	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaves	amod
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sitting	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 autumn	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 autumn	det
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 autumn	amod
25	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leaves	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 heap	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 heap	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 heap	amod
29	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 autumn	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 swept	obl
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 swept	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 swept	aux:pass
34	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 heap	acl:relcl
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 cave	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cave	det
37	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swept	obl
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 wind	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wind	det
40	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swept	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	Ceres not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	catch	past	Ceres				tree rules
3	seem	past	a glimpse				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	is a	to-infinitive	a glimpse not said here	a woman			tree rules
5	sit	gerund	a glimpse not said here		the brown leaves of the last autumn and a great heap		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location
6	sweep	past · perfect · passive	the wind		the cave	of a great heap	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cave=Destination

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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