--- title: Only here and there a glimmer fell upon the leaf-strewn earth, or no… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Only here and there a glimmer fell upon the leaf-strewn earth, or now and then a breeze stirred the boughs aside, and gave Jason a glimpse of the sky, lest, in that deep obscurity, he might forget that there was one, overhead. Who acts: glimmer, breeze, Jason. 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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 (glimmer, breeze, Jason), 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:pg976:29:70 # text = Only here and there a glimmer fell upon the leaf-strewn earth, or now and then a breeze stirred the boughs aside, and gave Jason a glimpse of the sky, lest, in that deep obscurity, he might forget that there was one, overhead. 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 glimmer glimmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 strewn strewn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stirred stir VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 boughs bough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 aside aside ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 iobj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 glimpse glimpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 27 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 39 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 obscurity obscurity NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 45 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 47 expl _ _ 47 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ _ 48 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 overhead overhead NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | a glimmer | | | the strewn earth; here | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location | | 2 | **stir** | past | a breeze | the boughs | | | now; then | aside *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bough=Experiencer | | 3 | **give** | past | a glimmer *not said here* | a glimpse of the sky | | | | that deep obscurity *vocative* | tree rules | | 4 | **forget** | might | Jason | one | | | | overhead *obl* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | past | Jason *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **glimpse** | | | the sky | | | | | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/71/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/)