--- title: Lifting her eyes, she was surprised to see a sudden verdure flashing… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Lifting her eyes, she was surprised to see a sudden verdure flashing over the brown and barren fields, exactly as you may have observed a golden hue gleaming far and wide across the landscape, from the just risen sun. Who acts: mother, sudden verdure, golden hue. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, sudden verdure, golden hue), 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:pg976:24:45 # text = Lifting her eyes, she was surprised to see a sudden verdure flashing over the brown and barren fields, exactly as you may have observed a golden hue gleaming far and wide across the landscape, from the just risen sun. 1 Lifting lift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 verdure verdure NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 flashing flash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 barren barren ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux _ _ 26 observed observe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hue hue NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 gleaming gleam VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 wide wide ADV RB _ 31 conj _ _ 34 across across ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 landscape landscape NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 just just ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 risen rise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 sun. sun. NOUN NN _ 7 conj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | gerund | | mother's eyes | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | mother | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | a sudden verdure | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer verdure=Stimulus | | 4 | **flash** | gerund | a sudden verdure *not said here* | | | the brown fields | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location | | 5 | **observe** | may · perfect · passive | | you | | | | exactly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **gleam** | gerund | a golden hue *not said here* | | | the landscape | | far *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **rise** | participle | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/46/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/)