Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 54

Instead of his ordinary milk diet, did he not eat up two of our comrades for his supper, and a couple more for breakfast, and two at his supper again?

Who acts: Polyphemus · What happens: not eat up · To what, where: two

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 (Polyphemus), 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=ADP	6 diet	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 diet	nmod:poss
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 diet	amod
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 diet	compound
6	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 diet	punct
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eat	nsubj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 eat	advmod
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	13 two	advmod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 eat	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 comrades	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 comrades	nmod:poss
16	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 two	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 supper	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 supper	nmod:poss
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comrades	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 more	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 more	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 couple	det
23	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 more	obl:unmarked
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 eat	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 breakfast	case
26	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 more	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 two	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 two	cc
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 eat	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 supper	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 supper	nmod:poss
32	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 two	nmod
33	again	again	ADV	_	11 eat	advmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat up	past · do-support	Polyphemus	two of our comrades for Polyphemus's supper			again	instead Polyphemus's ordinary milk diet	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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