Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 81
So intensely hot it was, indeed, that it caught a dry tree under which Jason was now standing, and set it all in a light blaze.
Who acts: breath, Jason · What happens: be, catch, stand, set · To what, where: dry tree, breath, light blaze
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 (breath, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hot | advmod |
| 2 | intensely | intensely | ADV | _ | 3 hot | advmod |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hot | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hot | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 indeed | punct |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 hot | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 caught | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 caught | nsubj |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hot | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 standing | obl |
| 17 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 standing | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 standing | aux |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 standing | advmod |
| 20 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 tree | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 caught | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | obj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 it | det |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 blaze | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 blaze | det |
| 28 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 blaze | amod |
| 29 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | breath | hot, indeed, intensely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | breath | a dry tree | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | Jason | a dry tree | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location | |||
| 4 | set | infinitive | breath not said here | breath | a light blaze | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in blaze=Destination |
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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