Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 58

"Either way," murmured some of the hungriest of the crew; "it will be better than starvation; particularly if one could be sure of being well fattened beforehand, and daintily cooked afterwards."

Who acts: question, one · What happens: murmur, be, fatten, cook · To what, where: way · 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 (question, one), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
2	Either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 murmured	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 murmured	punct
6	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 hungriest	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hungriest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hungriest	det
10	hungriest	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 murmured	advcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 crew	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crew	det
13	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hungriest	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 better	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 better	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 better	cop
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 murmured	conj
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 starvation	case
21	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 better	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 sure	punct
23	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	28 sure	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 sure	mark
25	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sure	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sure	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 sure	cop
28	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 murmured	conj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 fattened	mark
30	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 fattened	aux:pass
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 fattened	advmod
32	fattened	fatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 sure	ccomp
33	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	_	32 fattened	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cooked	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cooked	cc
36	daintily	daintily	ADV	_	37 cooked	advmod
37	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 murmured	parataxis
38	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	37 cooked	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 cooked	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 cooked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	murmur speech: other	past		either way		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	future	question		than starvation; good property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	one		particularly, sure property	tree rules
4	fatten in a quote	gerund · passive	one not said here		beforehand, well property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
5	cook in a quote	participle			afterwards, daintily property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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