Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 7

Scudding before the hurricane, he reached a place, which, as he afterwards found, was called Laestrygonia, where some monstrous giants had eaten up many of his companions, and had sunk every one of his vessels, except that in which he himself sailed, by flinging great masses of rock at them, from the cliffs along the shore.

Who acts: Ulysses, place · What happens: scud, reach, find, call, eat up, sink · To what, where: hurricane, place, monstrous giants, one, great masses, cliffs · 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 (Ulysses, place), 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	Scudding	scud	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 reached	advcl
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 hurricane	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hurricane	det
4	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scudding	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Scudding	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 found	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 found	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
15	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	16 found	advmod
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 place	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 called	aux:pass
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 found	xcomp
20	Laestrygonia	Laestrygonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eaten	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 eaten	advmod
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 giants	det
24	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 giants	amod
25	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eaten	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 eaten	aux
27	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Laestrygonia	acl:relcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 eaten	compound:prt
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eaten	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 companions	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 companions	nmod:poss
32	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 many	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sunk	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sunk	cc
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sunk	aux
36	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 reached	conj
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sunk	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 vessels	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 vessels	nmod:poss
41	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 one	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sailed	punct
43	except	except	ADP	_	44 that	case
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 sailed	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 which	case
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 sailed	obl
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 sailed	nsubj
48	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	47 he	nmod:unmarked
49	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sunk	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 flinging	punct
51	by	by	SCONJ	_	52 flinging	mark
52	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 sailed	advcl
53	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 masses	amod
54	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 flinging	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 rock	case
56	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 masses	nmod
57	at	at	ADP	_	58 them	case
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 flinging	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 cliffs	punct
60	from	from	ADP	_	62 cliffs	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 cliffs	det
62	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 flinging	obl
63	along	along	ADP	_	65 shore	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 shore	det
65	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 cliffs	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scud	gerund	Ulysses not said here		the hurricane		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before hurricane=Trajectory
2	reach	past	Ulysses	a place			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	find	past	a place			afterwards property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	call	past · passive	a place not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
5	eat up	past · perfect · passive		some monstrous giants			tree rules
6	sink	past · perfect	Ulysses not said here	every one of Ulysses's vessels			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient
7	sail	past	Ulysses			except that	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
8	fling	gerund	Ulysses not said here	great masses of rock	the cliffs along the shore	at vessels = vessel	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mass=Theme at they=Destination

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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