Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 9

But he had encountered so many dangers from giants, and one-eyed Cyclops, and monsters of the sea and land, that he could not help dreading some mischief, even in this pleasant and seemingly solitary spot.

Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: encounter, not help, dread · To what, where: many dangers, mischief, pleasant solitary spot

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 encountered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 encountered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 encountered	aux
4	encountered	encounter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dangers	amod
7	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 encountered	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 giants	case
9	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 encountered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Cyclops	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Cyclops	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 eyed	nummod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
14	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Cyclops	amod
15	Cyclops	cyclops	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 encountered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 monsters	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 monsters	cc
18	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Cyclops	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sea	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 monsters	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 land	cc
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sea	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 help	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 help	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 help	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 help	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 help	advmod
29	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 encountered	conj
30	dreading	dread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 help	xcomp
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 mischief	det
32	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dreading	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 spot	punct
34	even	even	ADV	_	41 spot	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	41 spot	case
36	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 spot	nsubj
37	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 spot	amod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 seemingly	cc
39	seemingly	seemingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pleasant	conj
40	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 spot	amod
41	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dreading	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 encountered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	encounter	past · perfect	Ulysses	many dangers		from giants; eyed Cyclops and monsters of the sea and land obl	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus
2	not help	could	Ulysses				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	dread not said to happen	gerund	Ulysses not said here	some mischief	pleasant solitary spot		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mischief=Stimulus

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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