Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 67

Another person now held the helmet, while Ulysses and Eurylochus drew out each a shell; and the word "Go" was found written on that which Eurylochus had drawn.

Who acts: person, Ulysses, word · What happens: hold, draw out, find, write, draw · To what, where: helmet, shell, word, that

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 (person, Ulysses, word), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 held	advmod
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 helmet	det
6	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drew	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 drew	mark
9	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 drew	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Eurylochus	cc
11	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ulysses	conj
12	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 drew	compound:prt
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 shell	det
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 shell	det
16	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drew	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 word	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 word	det
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	nsubj:pass
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Go	punct
22	Go	Go	PROPN	_	20 word	appos
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Go	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	aux:pass
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 held	conj
26	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 found	xcomp
27	on	on	SCONJ	_	32 drawn	mark
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 drawn	nsubj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 drawn	nsubj:pass
30	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 drawn	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 drawn	aux
32	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 written	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hold	past	another person	the helmet	now	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme
2	draw out	past	Ulysses and Eurylochus	each shell		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme
3	find	past · passive		the word		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
4	write	participle	the word not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	draw	past · perfect · passive		that		vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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