Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 1

Some of you have heard, no doubt, of the wise King Ulysses, and how he went to the siege of Troy, and how, after that famous city was taken and burned, he spent ten long years in trying to get back again to his own little kingdom of Ithaca.

Who acts: Some, King, city · What happens: hear, go, take, burn, spend, try · To what, where: doubt, siege, famous city

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, King, city), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 heard	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 you	case
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Some	nmod
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 doubt	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 doubt	det
8	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Ulysses	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 Ulysses	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Ulysses	det
12	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Ulysses	amod
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Ulysses	nmod:desc
14	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heard	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 went	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 siege	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 siege	det
22	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Troy	case
24	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 siege	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 taken	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 taken	cc
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 taken	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 taken	punct
29	after	after	SCONJ	_	34 taken	mark
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 city	det
31	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 city	amod
32	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taken	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 taken	aux:pass
34	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 heard	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 burned	cc
36	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 taken	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 spent	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 spent	nsubj
39	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
40	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 years	nummod
41	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 years	amod
42	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 spent	obj
43	in	in	SCONJ	_	44 trying	mark
44	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 spent	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 get	mark
46	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 trying	xcomp
47	back	back	ADV	_	46 get	advmod
48	again	again	ADV	_	46 get	advmod
49	to	to	ADP	_	53 kingdom	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 kingdom	nmod:poss
51	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 kingdom	amod
52	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 kingdom	amod
53	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 get	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 Ithaca	case
55	Ithaca	Ithaca	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 kingdom	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	Some	no doubt				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	past	King		the siege of Troy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to siege=Initial_Location
3	take	past · passive		that famous city				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	burn	participle						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spend	past	city			year		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	try	gerund	city not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	get back not said to happen	to-infinitive	city not said here			again	to city's own little kingdom of Ithaca result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result

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.

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