Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 76
Now he could see glowing sparks, and vivid jets of flame.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: see, glow · To what, where: glowing sparks
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sparks | amod |
| 6 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jets | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 jets | cc |
| 9 | vivid | vivid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jets | amod |
| 10 | jets | jet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 flame | case |
| 12 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jets | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Jason | glowing sparks | now | vivid jets of flame obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spark=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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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