Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 72

At some distance before him he perceived four streams of fiery vapor, regularly appearing and again vanishing, after dimly lighting up the surrounding obscurity.

Who acts: Jason · What happens: perceive, appear, vanish, light up, surround · To what, where: four streams, surrounding obscurity

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 (Jason), 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	_	3 distance	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 distance	det
3	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perceived	obl
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 distance	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 perceived	nsubj
7	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 streams	nummod
9	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 perceived	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 vapor	case
11	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 vapor	amod
12	vapor	vapor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 streams	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 appearing	punct
14	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	15 appearing	advmod
15	appearing	appear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 perceived	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 vanishing	cc
17	again	again	ADV	_	18 vanishing	advmod
18	vanishing	vanish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 appearing	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lighting	punct
20	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 lighting	mark
21	dimly	dimly	ADV	_	22 lighting	advmod
22	lighting	light	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 appearing	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 lighting	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 obscurity	det
25	surrounding	surround	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 obscurity	amod
26	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lighting	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	Jason	four streams of fiery vapor		at some distance before Jason	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stream=Stimulus
2	appear	gerund	Jason not said here			regularly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	vanish	gerund	Jason not said here		again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	light up	gerund	Jason not said here	the surrounding obscurity		dimly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obscurity=Product
5	surround	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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