Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 38
On his way to the shore, Ulysses had the good luck to kill a large stag by thrusting his spear into his back.
Who acts: Ulysses, good luck · What happens: have, kill, thrust · To what, where: good luck, way, large stag, spear, back
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, good luck), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 way | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 8 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 luck | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 luck | amod |
| 12 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stag | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stag | amod |
| 17 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kill | obj |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 thrusting | mark |
| 19 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 kill | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 spear | nmod:poss |
| 21 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thrusting | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 back | nmod:poss |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thrusting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ulysses | the good luck | bird's way to the shore | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | the good luck not said here | a large stag | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thrust | gerund | the good luck not said here | bird's spear | bird's back | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme |
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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