Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 95

The moon was now high aloft in the heavens, and threw its bright beams over the plowed field, where as yet there was nothing to be seen.

Who acts: moon, dragon · What happens: be, throw, plow, see, beam · To what, where: heavens, bright beams, plowed field

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 (moon, dragon), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 aloft	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 aloft	cop
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 aloft	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 aloft	amod
6	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 heavens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heavens	det
9	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 aloft	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 aloft	parataxis
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 beams	nmod:poss
14	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beams	amod
15	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 threw	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	19 field	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 field	det
18	plowed	plow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 field	amod
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 was	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 was	advmod
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 yet	case
23	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 was	obl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 field	acl:relcl
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 was	nsubj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 seen	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 seen	aux:pass
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 nothing	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 aloft	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the moon		the heavens	now	aloft property	tree rules
2	throw	past		dragon's bright beams	the plowed field			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beam=Theme over field=Destination
3	plow	participle						vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	see	to-infinitive · passive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
5	beam		dragon					nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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