Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 20

With so agreeable a prospect before him, Ulysses fancied that he could not do better than go straight to the palace gate, and tell the master of it that there was a crew of poor shipwrecked mariners, not far off, who had eaten nothing for a day or two, save a few clams and oysters, and would therefore be thankful for a little food.

Who acts: Ulysses, crew, poor shipwrecked mariners · What happens: fancy, not do, go, tell, be, shipwreck · To what, where: palace gate, master, few clams · Speech: someone speaks here

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, crew, poor shipwrecked mariners), 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	With	with	ADP	_	5 prospect	case
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 agreeable	advmod
3	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prospect	amod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prospect	det
5	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fancied	obl
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prospect	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 prospect	punct
9	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fancied	nsubj
10	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fancied	ccomp
16	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 do	advmod
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 do	advcl
19	straight	straight	ADV	_	23 gate	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 gate	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gate	det
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gate	compound
23	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tell	cc
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fancied	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 master	det
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 master	nmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 was	mark
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 was	expl
33	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 crew	det
35	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 was	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 mariners	case
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 mariners	amod
38	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 mariners	amod
39	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 crew	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 eaten	punct
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 eaten	advmod
42	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 off	advmod
43	off	off	ADV	_	47 eaten	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 eaten	punct
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 eaten	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 eaten	aux
47	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 mariners	parataxis
48	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	47 eaten	conj
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 day	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 day	det
51	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 nothing	nmod
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 two	cc
53	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 day	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 save	punct
55	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tell	conj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 clams	det
57	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 clams	amod
58	clams	clam	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 save	obj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 oysters	cc
60	oysters	oyster	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 clams	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 thankful	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 thankful	cc
63	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 thankful	aux
64	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	66 thankful	advmod
65	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	66 thankful	cop
66	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fancied	conj
67	for	for	ADP	_	70 food	case
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 food	det
69	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 food	amod
70	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 thankful	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	Ulysses			with a agreeable prospect before fire	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not do	could	Ulysses			well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	infinitive	Ulysses not said here		the palace gate		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Ulysses not said here	the master of master			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
5	be	past	a crew of poor shipwrecked mariners		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shipwreck	participle					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	not eat	past · perfect	poor shipwrecked mariners			off property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	save	infinitive	Ulysses not said here	a few clams and oysters			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clam=Theme
9	is	would	Ulysses not said here			for a little food; thankful, therefore property	tree rules

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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