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title: But Lynceus, with his sharp eyes, had already caught a glimpse of hi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Lynceus, with his sharp eyes, had already caught a glimpse of him, bringing the Golden Fleece, although several stone walls, a hill, and the black shadows of the Grove of Mars, intervened between. Who acts: black shadows. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 110

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But Lynceus, with his sharp eyes, had already caught a glimpse of him, bringing the Golden Fleece, although several stone walls, a hill, and the black shadows of the Grove of Mars, intervened between.

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**Who acts:** black shadows · **What happens:** catch, bring, intervene, glimpse, shadow · **To what, where:** Lynceus, Golden Fleece, bade, Grove

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black shadows), 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:pg976:29:110
# text = But Lynceus, with his sharp eyes, had already caught a glimpse of him, bringing the Golden Fleece, although several stone walls, a hill, and the black shadows of the Grove of Mars, intervened between.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	Lynceus	Lynceus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	already	already	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Grove	Grove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	intervened	intervene	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
41	between	between	ADP	IN	_	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive |  | Lynceus and bade's sharp eyes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary glimpse=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund |  |  | the Golden Fleece and several stone walls and a hill |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fleece=Destination |
| 3 | **intervene** | participle | the black shadows of the Grove of Mars |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **glimpse** |  |  | bade |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **shadow** |  |  | the Grove of Mars |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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