Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 14

But King Ulysses was a bold man as well as a prudent one; and on the third morning he determined to discover what sort of a place the island was, and whether it were possible to obtain a supply of food for the hungry mouths of his companions.

Who acts: Ulysses, it · What happens: be, determine, discover, obtain, sort · To what, where: bold man, sort, supply, place

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 (Ulysses, it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 man	cc
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ulysses	nmod:desc
3	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 one	cc
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed
10	as	as	ADP	_	8 as	fixed
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 determined	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 determined	cc
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 morning	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 morning	det
18	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 morning	amod
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 determined	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 determined	nsubj
21	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 discover	mark
23	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 determined	xcomp
24	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	25 sort	det
25	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 discover	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 place	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 place	det
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sort	nmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 island	det
30	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 was	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 place	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 possible	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 possible	cc
34	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	37 possible	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 possible	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 possible	cop
37	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 determined	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 obtain	mark
39	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 possible	csubj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 supply	det
41	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 obtain	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 food	case
43	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 supply	nmod
44	for	for	ADP	_	47 mouths	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 mouths	det
46	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 mouths	amod
47	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 obtain	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 companions	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 companions	nmod:poss
50	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 mouths	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ulysses King	a bold man as a prudent one			tree rules
2	determine	past	Ulysses	a bold man as a prudent one not said here	morning		tree rules
3	discover	to-infinitive	Ulysses not said here	what sort of a place			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Topic
4	is	past	it			possible property	tree rules
5	obtain	to-infinitive		a supply of food		for the hungry mouths of Ulysses's companions	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent supply=Theme for mouth=Asset
6	sort			a place			nom sort «cognition transitive»: 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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