Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 65

At first there was a deep silence, not only within the shadow of the Talking Oak, but all through the solitary wood.

Who acts: deep silence · What happens: be, shadow · To what, where: Talking Oak

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deep silence), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 was	obl
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 silence	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 silence	amod
7	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shadow	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 shadow	advmod
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 shadow	advmod
11	within	within	ADP	_	13 shadow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shadow	det
13	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 silence	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Oak	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Oak	det
16	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Oak	compound
17	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 shadow	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wood	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 wood	cc
20	all	all	ADV	_	24 wood	advmod
21	through	through	ADP	_	24 wood	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wood	det
23	solitary	solitary	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wood	compound
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Oak	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a deep silence			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location
2	shadow			the Talking Oak but the solitary wood					nom shadow «state 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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