Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 59

There was a never-ceasing gloom, it is true, which half hid itself among the innumerable pillars, gliding before the child as she wandered among them, and treading stealthily behind her in the echo of her footsteps.

Who acts: gloom, half, palace · What happens: not cease, be, hide, glide, wander, tread · To what, where: half, innumerable pillars, echo

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gloom, half, palace), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 true	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gloom	det
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 ceasing	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 never	punct
6	ceasing	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 gloom	amod
7	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 true	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 true	cop
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hid	punct
13	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 half	det
14	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 hid	nsubj
15	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 true	conj
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 hid	obj
17	among	among	ADP	_	20 pillars	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pillars	det
19	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pillars	amod
20	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gliding	punct
22	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 hid	advcl
23	before	before	ADP	_	25 child	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 child	det
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gliding	obl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 wandered	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wandered	nsubj
28	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gliding	advcl
29	among	among	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wandered	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 treading	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 treading	cc
33	treading	tread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 true	advcl
34	stealthily	stealthily	ADV	_	33 treading	advmod
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 treading	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 echo	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 echo	det
39	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 treading	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 footsteps	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 footsteps	nmod:poss
42	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 echo	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cease	gerund						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	gloom				true property	tree rules
3	hide	past	which half	half	the innumerable pillars			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Patient among pillar=Location
4	glide	gerund	which half not said here			before the child		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before child=Trajectory
5	wander	past	palace				among pillars = pillar	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Trajectory
6	tread	gerund	gloom not said here		the echo of palace's footsteps		behind palace; stealthily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind she=Trajectory

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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