Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 11

Before the two days were spent, they grew very weary of this kind of life; for the followers of King Ulysses, as you will find it important to remember, were terrible gormandizers, and pretty sure to grumble if they missed their regulars meals, and their irregular ones besides.

Who acts: voyagers, you, life · What happens: spend, grow, find, remember, be, grumble · To what, where: two days, life, terrible gormandizers, ones besides, regulars meals

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 (voyagers, you, life), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	6 spent	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spent	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spent	aux:pass
6	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 grew	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spent	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 weary	advmod
11	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 kind	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 kind	det
14	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weary	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 life	case
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kind	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 followers	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 followers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 followers	det
20	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grew	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Ulysses	case
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Ulysses	nmod:desc
23	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 followers	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 find	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 find	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 grew	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	obj
30	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 find	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 remember	mark
32	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 important	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gormandizers	punct
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 gormandizers	cop
35	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 gormandizers	amod
36	gormandizers	gormandizer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grew	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sure	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sure	cc
39	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	40 sure	advmod
40	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 grumble	mark
42	grumble	grumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 sure	xcomp
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 missed	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 missed	nsubj
45	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 grumble	ccomp
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 regulars	nmod:poss
47	regulars	regular	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 meals	compound
48	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 missed	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 besides	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 besides	cc
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 ones	nmod:poss
52	irregular	irregular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ones	amod
53	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 besides	compound
54	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 grumble	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spend	past · passive		the two days		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	grow	past	voyagers = voyager		for the followers of Ulysses King; weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	future	you	life	important property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	remember	to-infinitive	life not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		terrible gormandizers		tree rules
6	grumble speech: other	to-infinitive	voyagers = voyager not said here	ones besides		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	miss a condition, not said to happen	past	voyagers = voyager	regulars meals		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus

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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