Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 68

By and by, Jason imagined that he could distinguish words, but very confusedly, because each separate leaf of the tree seemed to be a tongue, and the whole myriad of tongues were babbling at once.

Who acts: sound, separate leaf, whole myriad · What happens: imagine, distinguish, seem, be, babble · To what, where: words, tongue

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 (sound, separate leaf, whole myriad), 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	By	by	ADP	_	5 Jason	case
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 by	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	1 By	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 By	punct
5	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 imagined	obl
6	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 distinguish	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 distinguish	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 distinguish	aux
10	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 imagined	ccomp
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 distinguish	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 seemed	cc
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 confusedly	advmod
15	confusedly	confusedly	ADV	_	24 seemed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 seemed	mark
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 leaf	det
19	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 leaf	amod
20	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tree	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leaf	nmod
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 imagined	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	28 tongue	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 tongue	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tongue	det
28	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 babbling	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 babbling	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 myriad	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 myriad	amod
33	myriad	myriad	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 babbling	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 tongues	case
35	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 myriad	nmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 babbling	aux
37	babbling	babble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 seemed	xcomp
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 once	case
39	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 babbling	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 imagined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imagine	past			by Jason	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	distinguish	could	sound	words		vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute word=Theme
3	seem	past	each separate leaf of the tree		confusedly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	is a	to-infinitive	each separate leaf of the tree not said here	a tongue		tree rules
5	babble	past · progressive	the whole myriad of tongues			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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