Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 47

Instead of setting out, however, he summoned the whole crew together, and told them it was in vain to hope that he could kill a stag every day for their dinner, and therefore it was advisable to think of some other mode of satisfying their hunger.

Who acts: Ulysses, it, other mode, appetites · What happens: set out, summon, tell, be, hope, kill · To what, where: whole crew, appetites, stag, hunger · Speech: someone speaks here

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, it, other mode, appetites), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 setting	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 summoned	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 setting	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	3 setting	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 setting	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 summoned	nsubj
9	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crew	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crew	amod
12	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 summoned	obj
13	together	together	ADV	_	9 summoned	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 summoned	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 vain	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 vain	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 vain	case
21	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hope	mark
23	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 vain	csubj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 kill	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kill	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 kill	aux
27	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hope	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 stag	det
29	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kill	obj
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kill	obl:unmarked
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 dinner	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 dinner	nmod:poss
34	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kill	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 advisable	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 advisable	cc
37	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	40 advisable	advmod
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 advisable	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 advisable	cop
40	advisable	advisable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 vain	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 think	mark
42	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 advisable	csubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 mode	case
44	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 mode	det
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 mode	amod
46	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 think	obl
47	of	of	SCONJ	_	48 satisfying	mark
48	satisfying	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 mode	acl
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 hunger	nmod:poss
50	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 satisfying	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	set out	gerund	Ulysses not said here				however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	summon	past	Ulysses	the whole crew			together property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	Ulysses not said here		appetites = appetite			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	is	past	it				vain property	tree rules
5	hope	to-infinitive						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	kill	could	Ulysses	a stag		day	for appetites's dinner	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme
7	is	past	it				advisable, therefore property	tree rules
8	think speech: other	to-infinitive					of some other mode	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	satisfy	gerund	some other mode not said here	appetites's hunger				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer
10	hunger		appetites = appetite					nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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