Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 79

O, how beautiful it looked, shining with a marvelous light of its own, that inestimable prize which so many heroes had longed to behold, but had perished in the quest of it, either by the perils of their voyage, or by the fiery breath of the brazen-lunged bulls.

Who acts: meed, many heroes, heroes · What happens: look, shine, long, perish, lunge, quest · To what, where: inestimable prize, quest, voyage

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 (meed, many heroes, heroes), 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	O	o	INTJ	_	4 beautiful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 beautiful	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 beautiful	advmod
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beautiful	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shining	punct
8	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 beautiful	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 light	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 light	det
11	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 light	amod
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shining	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 own	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 own	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 light	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prize	punct
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 prize	det
18	inestimable	inestimable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 prize	amod
19	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 light	conj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 longed	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 longed	advmod
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 heroes	amod
23	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 longed	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 longed	aux
25	longed	long	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 prize	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 behold	case
27	behold	behold	INTJ	_	25 longed	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 perished	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 perished	cc
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 perished	aux
31	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 beautiful	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 quest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 quest	det
34	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 perished	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 quest	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 perils	punct
38	either	either	CCONJ	_	41 perils	cc:preconj
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 perils	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 perils	det
41	perils	peril	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 perished	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 voyage	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 voyage	nmod:poss
44	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 perils	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 breath	punct
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 breath	cc
47	by	by	ADP	_	50 breath	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 breath	det
49	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 breath	amod
50	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 perils	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	56 bulls	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 bulls	det
53	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 lunged	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 brazen	punct
55	lunged	lunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 bulls	amod
56	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 breath	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	meed				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	shine	gerund				with a marvelous light of meed's own and that inestimable prize	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme
3	long	past · perfect	many heroes	that inestimable prize			tree rules
4	perish	past · perfect			the quest of meed	by the perils of heroes's voyage or the fiery breath of the lunged bulls	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	lunge	participle					tree rules
6	quest		meed				nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
7	peril			heroes's voyage			nom peril «state transitive»: of=patient
8	voyage		heroes = hero				nom voyage «act 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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