--- title: Then there was a dazzling gleam from a vast number of polished brass… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then there was a dazzling gleam from a vast number of polished brass helmets, beneath which, as they grew farther out of the soil, appeared the dark and bearded visages of warriors, struggling to free themselves from the imprisoning earth. Who acts: dazzling gleam, helmets. A sentence of «Tanglewood --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/99/) [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/) / [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/) / 99 # Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 99 Then there was a dazzling gleam from a vast number of polished brass helmets, beneath which, as they grew farther out of the soil, appeared the dark and bearded visages of warriors, struggling to free themselves from the imprisoning earth. **Who acts:** dazzling gleam, helmets · **What happens:** be, polish, grow, appear, struggle, imprison · **To what, where:** dazzling gleam, dark visages 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 (dazzling gleam, helmets), 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:pg976:28:99 # text = Then there was a dazzling gleam from a vast number of polished brass helmets, beneath which, as they grew farther out of the soil, appeared the dark and bearded visages of warriors, struggling to free themselves from the imprisoning earth. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 dazzling dazzling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 gleam gleam NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 polished polish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 13 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 farther far ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 23 out out ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 bearded bearded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 visages visage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 warriors warrior NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 struggling struggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 40 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 39 obl _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 imprisoning imprison VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 amod _ _ 44 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a dazzling gleam from a vast number of polished brass helmets | | | there | then | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **polish** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | past | helmets *= helmet* | | | a dazzling gleam from a vast number of polished brass helmets | | far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath which=Location | | 4 | **appear** | past | helmets *= helmet* *not said here* | the dark visages of warriors | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location visage=Theme | | 5 | **struggle** | gerund | helmets *= helmet* *not said here* | | | | | free *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **imprison** | gerund | | | | | | | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/100/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/)