Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 69
As there was no help for it, Eurylochus immediately set forth at the head of his twenty-two followers, who went off in a very melancholy state of mind, leaving their friends in hardly better spirits than themselves.
Who acts: help, Eurylochus, two followers · What happens: be, set, go off, leave · To what, where: head, melancholy state, friends, better spirits
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 (help, Eurylochus, two followers), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 help | det |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 9 | Eurylochus | Eurylochus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nsubj |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 followers | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 followers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 two | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 twenty | punct |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 followers | nummod |
| 21 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 head | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 followers | acl:relcl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 went | compound:prt |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 state | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 state | det |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 state | advmod |
| 29 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 state | compound |
| 30 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 mind | case |
| 32 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 state | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 leaving | punct |
| 34 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 went | advcl |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 friends | nmod:poss |
| 36 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 leaving | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 spirits | case |
| 38 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 39 better | advmod |
| 39 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 spirits | amod |
| 40 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 leaving | obl |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 themselves | case |
| 42 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 spirits | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no help for word | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | past | Eurylochus | the head of Eurylochus's two followers | forth, immediately property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at head=Destination | |||
| 3 | go off | past | Eurylochus's two followers | a melancholy state of mind | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in state=Location | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | Eurylochus's two followers not said here | followers's friends | better spirits than spirits | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Theme in spirit=Location |
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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