Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 69

After kindly patting the bulls, Jason followed Medea's guidance into the Grove of Mars, where the great oak trees, that had been growing for centuries, threw so thick a shade that the moonbeams struggled vainly to find their way through it.

Who acts: Jason, great oak trees, moonbeams, Medea · What happens: pat, follow, grow, throw, struggle, find · To what, where: bulls, guidance, Grove, way, shade

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 (Jason, great oak trees, moonbeams, Medea), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	3 patting	mark
2	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	3 patting	advmod
3	patting	pat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 followed	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bulls	det
5	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 patting	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 patting	punct
7	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 followed	nsubj
8	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 guidance	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Medea	case
11	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 followed	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 Grove	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Grove	det
14	Grove	Grove	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 followed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Mars	case
16	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Grove	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 threw	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 threw	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trees	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trees	amod
21	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trees	compound
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 threw	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 growing	punct
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 growing	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 growing	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 growing	aux
27	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 trees	acl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 centuries	case
29	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 growing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 centuries	punct
31	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Grove	acl:relcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 thick	advmod
33	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 threw	xcomp
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 shade	det
35	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thick	nsubj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 struggled	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 moonbeams	det
38	moonbeams	moonbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 struggled	nsubj
39	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thick	advcl
40	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	39 struggled	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 find	mark
42	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 struggled	xcomp
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 way	nmod:poss
44	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 find	obj
45	through	through	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 find	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pat	gerund	Jason not said here	the bulls			kindly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Experiencer
2	follow	past	Jason	Medea's guidance	the Grove of Mars			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guidance=Theme into grove=Trajectory
3	grow	past · perfect · progressive	the great oak trees			century		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	throw	past	the great oak trees				thick property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	struggle	past	the moonbeams				vainly property	tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive	the moonbeams not said here	streets's way	shade			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
7	guide		Medea					nom guidance «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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