Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 13

Such misshapen creatures were very numerous in those days; and nobody ever expected to make a voyage, or take a journey, without running more or less risk of being devoured by them.

Who acts: Such misshapen creatures, nobody, creatures · What happens: be, expect, make, take, run, devour · To what, where: nobody, voyage, journey, more risk

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 (Such misshapen creatures, nobody, creatures), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creatures	amod
2	misshapen	misshapen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creatures	compound
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 numerous	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 numerous	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 numerous	advmod
6	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 numerous	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 expected	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 expected	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 expected	nsubj:pass
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 expected	advmod
14	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 numerous	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 expected	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 voyage	det
18	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 make	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 journey	det
23	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 running	punct
25	without	without	SCONJ	_	26 running	mark
26	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 take	advcl
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 risk	amod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 less	cc
29	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 more	conj
30	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 running	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 devoured	mark
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 devoured	aux:pass
33	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 risk	acl
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 devoured	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 numerous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Such misshapen creatures		day	numerous property	tree rules
2	expect	participle · passive		nobody	ever		tree rules
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	a voyage			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product
4	take	infinitive	nobody not said here	a journey			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
5	run	gerund	nobody not said here	more risk			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory
6	devour	gerund · passive	creatures = creature	more risk not said here			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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