Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 56
And then, again, only a few days ago, did we not fall into the hands of the king of the Laestrygons, and those other horrible giants, his subjects, who devoured a great many more of us than are now left?
Who acts: we, other horrible giants · What happens: do, not fall, devour, leave · To what, where: hands, subjects, many
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 (we, other horrible giants), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 did | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 did | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 again | punct |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 then | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 again | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 days | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 did | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ago | punct |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fall | nsubj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fall | advmod |
| 15 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 did | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hands | det |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fall | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hands | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Laestrygons | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Laestrygons | det |
| 24 | Laestrygons | Laestrygon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 king | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 devoured | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 devoured | cc |
| 27 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 giants | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 giants | amod |
| 29 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 giants | amod |
| 30 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 devoured | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 subjects | punct |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 33 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 devoured | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 devoured | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 devoured | nsubj |
| 36 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fall | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 left | det |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 left | advcl |
| 39 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 left | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 many | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 us | case |
| 42 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 more | obl |
| 43 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 more | fixed |
| 44 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 left | aux:pass |
| 45 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 left | advmod |
| 46 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 devoured | parataxis |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | then | ago property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not fall | present | we | into the hands of the king of the Laestrygons result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | ||||
| 3 | devour | past | that other horrible giants | Polyphemus's subjects | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | leave | present · passive | many | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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