Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 21

Once or twice, he fancied that he saw a glare of some bright object, a long way off, flinging a gleam across the waves.

Who acts: Theseus · What happens: fancy, see, fling · To what, where: glare, gleam, waves

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 (Theseus), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 fancied	advmod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 twice	cc
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Once	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fancied	nsubj
6	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fancied	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 glare	det
11	glare	glare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 object	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 object	det
14	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 object	amod
15	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glare	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 object	appos
20	off	off	ADV	_	19 way	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flinging	punct
22	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 saw	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 gleam	det
24	gleam	gleam	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flinging	obj
25	across	across	ADP	_	27 waves	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 waves	det
27	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flinging	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	Theseus			once property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	past	Theseus	a glare of some bright object			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glare=Stimulus
3	fling	gerund	Theseus not said here	a gleam	the waves		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gleam=Theme

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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