Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 97

But by and by, all over the field, there was something that glistened in the moonbeams, like sparkling drops of dew.

Who acts: something · What happens: be, glisten, sparkle · To what, where: moonbeams, drops

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 (something), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 was	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	9 field	case
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 by	cc
4	by	by	ADP	_	2 by	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 field	punct
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 field	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 field	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 was	nsubj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 glistened	nsubj
15	glistened	glisten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 something	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 moonbeams	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moonbeams	det
18	moonbeams	moonbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 glistened	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sparkling	punct
20	like	like	SCONJ	_	21 sparkling	mark
21	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 glistened	advcl
22	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sparkling	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 dew	case
24	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drops	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	something		there	by the field	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by field=Location
2	glisten	past			the moonbeams		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonbeam=Location
3	sparkle	gerund		drops of dew			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent drop=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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