Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 10

For two days, therefore, the poor weather-worn voyagers kept quiet, and either staid on board of their vessel, or merely crept along under the cliffs that bordered the shore; and to keep themselves alive, they dug shellfish out of the sand, and sought for any little rill of fresh water that might be running towards the sea.

Who acts: poor worn voyagers, cliffs, voyagers, fresh water · What happens: keep, creep, border, dig, seek, run · To what, where: cliffs, shore, voyagers, shellfish, sand, sea

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 (poor worn voyagers, cliffs, voyagers, fresh water), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	13 kept	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 therefore	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 voyagers	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 voyagers	amod
9	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worn	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 weather	punct
11	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 voyagers	amod
12	voyagers	voyager	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kept	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 staid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 staid	cc
17	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 staid	advmod
18	staid	staid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kept	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 board	case
20	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 staid	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 vessel	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 vessel	nmod:poss
23	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 board	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 crept	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 crept	cc
26	merely	merely	ADV	_	27 crept	advmod
27	crept	creep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 staid	parataxis
28	along	along	ADP	_	31 cliffs	case
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 cliffs	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cliffs	det
31	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crept	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 bordered	nsubj
33	bordered	border	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cliffs	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shore	det
35	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bordered	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 keep	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 keep	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	39 keep	mark
39	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 kept	advcl
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 keep	obj
41	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 keep	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dug	punct
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 dug	nsubj
44	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	conj
45	shellfish	shellfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 dug	obj
46	out	out	ADP	_	49 sand	case
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 sand	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 sand	det
49	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dug	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sought	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 sought	cc
52	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	conj
53	for	for	ADP	_	56 rill	case
54	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	56 rill	det
55	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 rill	amod
56	rill	rill	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sought	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 water	case
58	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 water	amod
59	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 rill	nmod
60	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 running	nsubj
61	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 running	aux
62	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 running	aux
63	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 water	acl:relcl
64	towards	towards	ADP	_	66 sea	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 sea	det
66	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 running	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the poor worn voyagers			day	quiet, therefore property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	creep	participle			the cliffs		merely property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along cliff=Trajectory
3	border	past	the cliffs	the shore				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Co-Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive	the poor worn voyagers not said here	voyagers = voyager			alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
5	dig	past	voyagers = voyager	shellfish	the sand			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shellfish=Theme out sand=Location
6	seek	past	the poor worn voyagers not said here				for any little rill of fresh water	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for rill=Theme
7	run	might · progressive	fresh water		the sea			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sea=Destination

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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