Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 44

The rest of the day was spent in feasting; and if these enormous eaters got up from table at sunset, it was only because they could not scrape another morsel off the poor animal's bones.

Who acts: enormous eaters, rest · What happens: spend, get up, not be · To what, where: rest, feasting, table

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 (enormous eaters, rest), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rest	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spent	aux:pass
7	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 feasting	case
9	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 got	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 got	mark
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 eaters	det
14	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eaters	amod
15	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spent	conj
17	up	up	ADV	_	16 got	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 table	case
19	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 sunset	case
21	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 scrape	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 scrape	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 scrape	cop
25	only	only	ADV	_	30 scrape	advmod
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 scrape	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 scrape	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 scrape	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 scrape	advmod
30	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 spent	advcl
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 morsel	det
32	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scrape	obj
33	off	off	ADP	_	38 bones	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 animal	det
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 animal	amod
36	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bones	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 animal	case
38	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 scrape	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past · passive		the rest of the day	feasting			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	get up a condition, not said to happen	past	this enormous eaters		table	sunset		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from table=Destination
3	not is	could · past	rest				off the poor animal's bones; scrape property	tree rules

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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