Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 34

So he resolved, for the present, to return to the vessel, and tell his companions what he had seen.

Who acts: bird · What happens: resolve, return, tell, see · To what, where: present, companions · 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 (bird), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 resolved	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 resolved	nsubj
3	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 present	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 present	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 present	det
7	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resolved	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 return	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 return	mark
10	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 resolved	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 vessel	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vessel	det
13	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 return	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 return	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 companions	nmod:poss
18	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tell	obj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 seen	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 tell	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	bird	the present		tree rules
2	return	to-infinitive			to the vessel result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to vessel=Result
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive		bird's companions		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent companion=Recipient clause=Topic
4	see	past · perfect	bird			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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