Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 3

For, only a little while before he came thither, he had met with a terrible hurricane, or rather a great many hurricanes at once, which drove his fleet of vessels into a strange part of the sea, where neither himself nor any of his mariners had ever sailed.

Who acts: city, any · What happens: come, meet, drive, sail · To what, where: great many hurricanes, fleet, strange part

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 (city, any), 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	For	for	ADP	_	6 while	case
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 while	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 while	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 while	amod
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 met	obl
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 while	advcl
10	thither	thither	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 while	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 met	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 met	aux
14	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 hurricane	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hurricane	det
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hurricane	amod
18	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 met	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hurricanes	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 hurricanes	cc
21	rather	rather	ADV	_	25 hurricanes	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hurricanes	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hurricanes	amod
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hurricanes	amod
25	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 met	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 hurricanes	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 drove	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 drove	nsubj
30	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 met	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fleet	nmod:poss
32	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drove	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 vessels	case
34	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fleet	nmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	38 part	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 part	det
37	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 part	amod
38	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drove	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 sea	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sea	det
41	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 part	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 himself	punct
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 himself	advmod
44	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	45 himself	cc:preconj
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 sea	nmod
46	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	53 sailed	cc
47	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	53 sailed	nsubj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 mariners	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 mariners	nmod:poss
50	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 any	nmod
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 sailed	aux
52	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	53 sailed	advmod
53	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 himself	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	city				thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past · perfect	city	a great many hurricanes		while	with a terrible hurricane	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hurricane=Co-Agent
3	drive	past		city's fleet of vessels	a strange part of the sea city			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme into part=Trajectory
4	sail	past · perfect	any			ever		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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