Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 110

But Lynceus, with his sharp eyes, had already caught a glimpse of him, bringing the Golden Fleece, although several stone walls, a hill, and the black shadows of the Grove of Mars, intervened between.

Who acts: black shadows · What happens: catch, bring, intervene, glimpse, shadow · To what, where: Lynceus, Golden Fleece, bade, Grove

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black shadows), 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	_	11 caught	cc
2	Lynceus	Lynceus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 caught	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eyes	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Lynceus	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lynceus	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 caught	aux
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 caught	advmod
11	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 glimpse	det
13	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 glimpse	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bringing	punct
17	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 caught	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Fleece	det
19	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Fleece	amod
20	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bringing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 walls	punct
22	although	although	SCONJ	_	25 walls	case
23	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 walls	amod
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walls	compound
25	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 Fleece	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hill	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hill	det
28	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Fleece	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 intervened	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 intervened	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shadows	det
32	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shadows	amod
33	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 intervened	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Grove	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Grove	det
36	Grove	Grove	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 shadows	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Mars	case
38	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Grove	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 intervened	punct
40	intervened	intervene	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 caught	conj
41	between	between	ADP	_	40 intervened	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		Lynceus and bade's sharp eyes		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary glimpse=Theme
2	bring	gerund			the Golden Fleece and several stone walls and a hill	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fleece=Destination
3	intervene	participle	the black shadows of the Grove of Mars			tree rules
4	glimpse			bade		nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient
5	shadow			the Grove of Mars		nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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