Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 39

Taking it on his shoulders (for he was a remarkably strong man), he lugged it along with him, and flung it down before his hungry companions.

Who acts: bird · What happens: take, be, lug, fling down · To what, where: spear, shoulders, hungry companions

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	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lugged	advcl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Taking	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 shoulders	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shoulders	nmod:poss
5	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	obl
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	13 man	case
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 man	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
11	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	12 strong	advmod
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoulders	appos
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lugged	nsubj
17	lugged	lug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lugged	obj
19	along	along	ADV	_	17 lugged	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lugged	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flung	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flung	cc
24	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lugged	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 flung	obj
26	down	down	ADP	_	24 flung	compound:prt
27	before	before	ADP	_	30 companions	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 companions	nmod:poss
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 companions	amod
30	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flung	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 lugged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	bird not said here	spear	bird's shoulders		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination
2	is	past	bird			for a strong man	tree rules
3	lug	past	bird	spear		with Ulysses; along property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	fling down	past	bird not said here	spear	bird's hungry companions		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme before companion=Destination

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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