--- title: They soon entered a broad pathway, which seemed to be very neatly ke… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They soon entered a broad pathway, which seemed to be very neatly kept, and which went winding along, with streaks of sunshine falling across it and specks of light quivering among the deepest shadows that fell from the lofty trees. Who acts: glimpses, broad pathway, streaks, light. A sentence of «T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [Circe's Palace., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/) / 9 # Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 9 They soon entered a broad pathway, which seemed to be very neatly kept, and which went winding along, with streaks of sunshine falling across it and specks of light quivering among the deepest shadows that fell from the lofty trees. **Who acts:** glimpses, broad pathway, streaks, light, deepest shadows · **What happens:** enter, seem, keep, go, wind, fall · **To what, where:** broad pathway, sunshine, deepest shadows, lofty trees This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glimpses, broad pathway, streaks, light), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:16:9 # text = They soon entered a broad pathway, which seemed to be very neatly kept, and which went winding along, with streaks of sunshine falling across it and specks of light quivering among the deepest shadows that fell from the lofty trees. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 pathway pathway NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 neatly neatly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 winding wind VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 along along ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 streaks streak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 27 across across ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 specks speck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 quivering quiver VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 34 among among ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 37 amod _ _ 37 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | glimpses *= glimpse* | a broad pathway | | | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pathway=Destination | | 2 | **seem** | past | a broad pathway | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive · passive | a broad pathway *not said here* | | | | | neatly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **go** | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **wind** | gerund | | | | | | with streaks of sunshine; along *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | gerund | streaks of sunshine *not said here* | | | sunshine | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across it=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **speck** | present | | | | | | of light | tree rules | | 8 | **quiver** | gerund | light *not said here* | | | the deepest shadows | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among shadow=Location | | 9 | **fall** | past | the deepest shadows | | | the lofty trees | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/10/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/)