Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 70

Only here and there a glimmer fell upon the leaf-strewn earth, or now and then a breeze stirred the boughs aside, and gave Jason a glimpse of the sky, lest, in that deep obscurity, he might forget that there was one, overhead.

Who acts: glimmer, breeze, Jason · What happens: fall, stir, give, forget, be, glimpse · To what, where: strewn earth, boughs, glimpse, one, sky

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 (glimmer, breeze, 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 here	advmod
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fell	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 there	cc
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 here	expl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 glimmer	det
6	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strewn	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 leaf	punct
12	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 earth	amod
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stirred	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 stirred	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 stirred	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stirred	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 stirred	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 breeze	det
20	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stirred	nsubj
21	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boughs	det
23	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stirred	obj
24	aside	aside	ADV	_	21 stirred	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
28	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 gave	iobj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 glimpse	det
30	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sky	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sky	det
33	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 glimpse	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lest	punct
35	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	27 gave	iobj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 obscurity	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 obscurity	case
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 obscurity	det
39	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 obscurity	amod
40	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	vocative
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 forget	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 forget	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 forget	aux
44	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fell	conj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 was	mark
46	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 was	expl
47	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 forget	advcl
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 forget	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 overhead	punct
50	overhead	overhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 forget	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a glimmer		the strewn earth; here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location
2	stir	past	a breeze	the boughs		now; then	aside property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bough=Experiencer
3	give	past	a glimmer not said here	a glimpse of the sky			that deep obscurity vocative	tree rules
4	forget	might	Jason	one			overhead obl	tree rules
5	be	past	Jason not said here		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	glimpse			the sky				nom glimpse «act 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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