Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 43

So, beholding the dead stag, they felt of its ribs, in a knowing way, and lost no time in kindling a fire of driftwood, to cook it.

Who acts: tempers · What happens: behold, feel, know, lose, kindle, cook · To what, where: dead stag, fire, stag, driftwood

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 (tempers), 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	_	9 felt	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	beholding	behold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 felt	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stag	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stag	amod
6	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beholding	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beholding	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 felt	nsubj
9	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ribs	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ribs	nmod:poss
12	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 felt	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 way	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lost	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lost	cc
20	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 felt	conj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lost	obj
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 kindling	mark
24	kindling	kindle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 lost	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fire	det
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kindling	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 driftwood	case
28	driftwood	driftwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fire	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cook	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 cook	mark
31	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 kindling	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cook	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	behold	gerund	tempers = temper not said here	the dead stag			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus
2	feel	past	tempers = temper			of stag's ribs	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	know	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	lose	past	tempers = temper not said here		time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	kindle	gerund	tempers = temper not said here	a fire of driftwood			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
6	cook	to-infinitive	tempers = temper not said here	stag			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	fire			driftwood			nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient

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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