Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 12

Their stock of provisions was quite exhausted, and even the shellfish began to get scarce, so that they had now to choose between starving to death or venturing into the interior of the island, where perhaps some huge three-headed dragon, or other horrible monster, had his den.

Who acts: shellfish, some, voyagers · What happens: exhaust, begin, get, have, choose, starve · To what, where: stock, other horrible monster, interior, den, provisions

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 (shellfish, some, voyagers), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stock	nmod:poss
2	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exhausted	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 provisions	case
4	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stock	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 exhausted	aux:pass
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 exhausted	advmod
7	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
10	even	even	ADV	_	12 shellfish	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shellfish	det
12	shellfish	shellfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 exhausted	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 get	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 had	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 began	parataxis
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 had	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 choose	mark
24	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
25	between	between	ADP	_	26 starving	mark
26	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 choose	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 death	case
28	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 starving	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 venturing	cc
30	venturing	venture	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 starving	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 interior	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 interior	det
33	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 venturing	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 island	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 island	det
36	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 interior	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dragon	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 perhaps	advmod
39	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	45 dragon	advmod
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	45 dragon	nsubj
41	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 dragon	amod
42	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 headed	nummod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 three	punct
44	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 dragon	amod
45	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 island	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 monster	punct
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 monster	cc
48	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 monster	amod
49	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 monster	amod
50	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 starving	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 had	punct
52	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 had	conj
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 den	nmod:poss
54	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 had	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 exhausted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exhaust	past · passive		voyagers's stock of provisions				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	begin	past	the shellfish					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get	to-infinitive	the shellfish not said here				scarce property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	shellfish			now		tree rules
5	choose	to-infinitive	shellfish not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	starve	gerund	shellfish not said here	other horrible monster			to death	tree rules
7	venture	gerund	shellfish not said here		the interior of the island and huge headed dragon			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
8	dragon		some				perhaps property	tree rules
9	have	past	shellfish not said here	dragon's den				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Patient
10	stock		voyagers = voyager	provisions				nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent 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.

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