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title: Gleaming among the venerable oaks, there was a radiance, not like th… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gleaming among the venerable oaks, there was a radiance, not like the moonbeams, but rather resembling the golden glory of the setting sun. It proceeded from an object, which appeared to be suspended at about a man's height from the ground, a little farther within the wood. Who acts: Gleaming, radia
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 74

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Gleaming among the venerable oaks, there was a radiance, not like the moonbeams, but rather resembling the golden glory of the setting sun. It proceeded from an object, which appeared to be suspended at about a man's height from the ground, a little farther within the wood.

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**Who acts:** Gleaming, radiance, glory, object, setting sun. · **What happens:** gleam, be, not like, resemble, proceed, appear · **To what, where:** venerable oaks, radiance, moonbeams, setting sun., object, height

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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 (Gleaming, radiance, glory, object), 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:pg976:29:74
# text = Gleaming among the venerable oaks, there was a radiance, not like the moonbeams, but rather resembling the golden glory of the setting sun. It proceeded from an object, which appeared to be suspended at about a man's height from the ground, a little farther within the wood.
1	Gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moonbeams	moonbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	xcomp	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	about	about	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	's	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	obl	_	_
50	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
51	within	within	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  | the venerable oaks |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among oak=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Gleaming | a radiance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **like** | infinitive | a radiance *not said here* | the moonbeams |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot moonbeam=Theme |
| 4 | **resemble** | gerund | Gleaming *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **proceed** | past | glory | the setting sun. *not said here* |  | a object |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **appear** | past | a object |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **suspend** | to-infinitive · passive | a object *not said here* |  |  | a man's height from the ground |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: at height=Location |
| 8 | **glory** |  | the setting sun. |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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