Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 60

It was a starry night, with a bright gleam along the eastern edge of the sky, where the moon was soon going to show herself.

Who acts: ground, moon · What happens: be, go, show · To what, where: starry night, moon

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (ground, moon), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 night	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	starry	starry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gleam	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 gleam	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gleam	det
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gleam	amod
10	gleam	gleam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	conj
11	along	along	ADP	_	14 edge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 edge	det
13	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 edge	amod
14	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gleam	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sky	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sky	det
17	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 edge	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 going	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moon	det
21	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 going	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 going	advmod
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gleam	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 show	mark
26	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 going	xcomp
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 show	iobj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ground	a starry night and a bright gleam along the eastern edge of the sky			tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	the moon			soon property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	show	to-infinitive	the moon not said here		moon		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient

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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