Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 46

They looked at Ulysses, as if they expected him to clamber up the cliff again, and come back with another fat deer upon his shoulders.

Who acts: appetites, Ulysses · What happens: look, expect, clamber up, come back · To what, where: Ulysses, cliff

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 (appetites, Ulysses), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 Ulysses	case
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 expected	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 expected	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 expected	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 expected	nsubj
9	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 expected	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 clamber	mark
12	clamber	clamber	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 expected	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 clamber	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cliff	det
15	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clamber	obj
16	again	again	ADV	_	12 clamber	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 come	cc
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 clamber	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 deer	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 deer	det
23	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 deer	amod
24	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 shoulders	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shoulders	nmod:poss
27	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 deer	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	appetites = appetite			at Ulysses	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ulysses=Theme
2	expect a condition, not said to happen	past	appetites = appetite	Ulysses			tree rules
3	clamber up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ulysses not said here	the cliff	again		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cliff=Theme
4	come back	infinitive	Ulysses not said here			with another fat deer upon Ulysses's shoulders	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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