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title: At some distance before him he perceived four streams of fiery vapor… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At some distance before him he perceived four streams of fiery vapor, regularly appearing and again vanishing, after dimly lighting up the surrounding obscurity. Who acts: Jason. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 72

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At some distance before him he perceived four streams of fiery vapor, regularly appearing and again vanishing, after dimly lighting up the surrounding obscurity.

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**Who acts:** Jason · **What happens:** perceive, appear, vanish, light up, surround · **To what, where:** four streams, surrounding obscurity

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg976:28:72
# text = At some distance before him he perceived four streams of fiery vapor, regularly appearing and again vanishing, after dimly lighting up the surrounding obscurity.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	dimly	dimly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	lighting	light	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | Jason | four streams of fiery vapor |  |  |  | at some distance before Jason | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stream=Stimulus |
| 2 | **appear** | gerund | Jason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | regularly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **vanish** | gerund | Jason *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **light up** | gerund | Jason *not said here* | the surrounding obscurity |  |  |  | dimly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obscurity=Product |
| 5 | **surround** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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