Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 6
Immediately after escaping from this peril, a still greater one had befallen him.
What happens: escape, befall · To what, where: peril, greater one
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: 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 escaping | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 escaping | mark |
| 3 | escaping | escape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 peril | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 peril | det |
| 6 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 escaping | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 befallen | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 greater | advmod |
| 10 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 befallen | aux |
| 13 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 escaping | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 befallen | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 escaping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | gerund | this peril | immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from peril=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | befall | past · perfect · passive | a greater one | tree rules |
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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