Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 101

Then she led Theseus along by the hand until they came to a dark, shadowy grove, where the moonlight wasted itself on the tops of the trees, without shedding hardly so much as a glimmering beam upon their pathway.

Who acts: Heaven, guards, moonlight · What happens: lead, come, waste, shed · To what, where: Theseus, dark shadowy grove, moonlight, tops, much

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, guards, moonlight), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 led	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 led	obj
5	along	along	ADV	_	3 led	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hand	det
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	17 grove	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 grove	det
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grove	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dark	punct
16	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grove	amod
17	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wasted	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 wasted	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moonlight	det
21	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wasted	nsubj
22	wasted	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 wasted	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 tops	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tops	det
26	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wasted	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 trees	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trees	det
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tops	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shedding	punct
31	without	without	SCONJ	_	32 shedding	mark
32	shedding	shed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 wasted	advcl
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 shedding	obj
36	as	as	ADP	_	39 beam	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 beam	det
38	glimmering	glimmering	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 beam	compound
39	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 much	nmod
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 pathway	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 pathway	nmod:poss
42	pathway	pathway	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shedding	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	Heaven	Theseus		then	by the hand; along property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent theseus=Theme by hand=Destination
2	come	past	guards = guard		a dark shadowy grove			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grove=Initial_Location
3	waste	past	the moonlight	moonlight			on the tops of the trees goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent itself=Asset on top=Goal
4	shed	gerund	the moonlight not said here	much			as a glimmering beam; upon guards's pathway	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location much=Source

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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