Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 28

What was still more remarkable, whenever the sun shone on this huge figure, it flickered and glimmered; its vast countenance, too, had a metallic lustre, and threw great flashes of splendor through the air.

Who acts: sun, splendor · What happens: be, shine, flicker, glimmer, have, throw · To what, where: sun, huge figure, metallic lustre, great flashes, air

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 (sun, splendor), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 remarkable	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remarkable	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 remarkable	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 remarkable	advmod
5	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flickered	punct
7	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 flickered	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flickered	nsubj
10	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sun	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 figure	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 figure	det
13	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 figure	amod
14	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shone	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flickered	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flickered	nsubj
17	flickered	flicker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remarkable	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 glimmered	cc
19	glimmered	glimmer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flickered	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 countenance	punct
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 countenance	nmod:poss
22	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 countenance	amod
23	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remarkable	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 too	punct
25	too	too	ADV	_	23 countenance	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remarkable	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lustre	det
29	metallic	metallic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lustre	amod
30	lustre	lustre	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 threw	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 threw	cc
33	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	parataxis
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 flashes	amod
35	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 threw	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 splendor	case
37	splendor	splendor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flashes	nmod
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 air	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 air	det
40	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 threw	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remarkable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				still	remarkable property	tree rules
2	shine	participle		the sun not said here	this huge figure			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on figure=Location
3	flicker	past	the sun				whenever property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	glimmer	past	the sun not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past		a metallic lustre				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lustre=Patient
6	throw	past		great flashes of splendor	the air			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent flash=Theme through air=Destination
7	flash		splendor					nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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