Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 45

Lifting her eyes, she was surprised to see a sudden verdure flashing over the brown and barren fields, exactly as you may have observed a golden hue gleaming far and wide across the landscape, from the just risen sun.

Who acts: mother, sudden verdure, golden hue · What happens: lift, be, see, flash, observe, gleam · To what, where: eyes, sudden verdure, brown fields, you, landscape

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, sudden verdure, golden hue), 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	Lifting	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 surprised	csubj
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lifting	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lifting	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 surprised	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 surprised	cop
7	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 surprised	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 verdure	det
11	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 verdure	amod
12	verdure	verdure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
13	flashing	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 verdure	acl
14	over	over	ADP	_	19 fields	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fields	det
16	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fields	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 barren	cc
18	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brown	conj
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flashing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 observed	punct
21	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	26 observed	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 observed	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 observed	nsubj:pass
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 observed	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 observed	aux
26	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 surprised	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hue	det
28	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hue	amod
29	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 observed	obj
30	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 hue	acl
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 gleaming	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wide	cc
33	wide	wide	ADV	_	31 far	conj
34	across	across	ADP	_	36 landscape	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 landscape	det
36	landscape	landscape	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gleaming	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sun.	punct
38	from	from	ADP	_	42 sun.	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sun.	det
40	just	just	ADV	_	41 risen	advmod
41	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 sun.	amod
42	sun.	sun.	NOUN	_	7 surprised	conj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	gerund		mother's eyes			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	is	past	mother			surprised property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	mother not said here	a sudden verdure			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer verdure=Stimulus
4	flash	gerund	a sudden verdure not said here		the brown fields		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location
5	observe	may · perfect · passive		you		exactly property	tree rules
6	gleam	gerund	a golden hue not said here		the landscape	far property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	rise	participle					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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