Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 91

But the rest of the voyagers, snuffing up the smoke from the palace kitchen, ridiculed the idea of returning to the vessel.

Who acts: voyagers, rest, idea · What happens: snuff up, ridicule, return · To what, where: smoke, palace kitchen, idea

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 (voyagers, rest, idea), 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	_	17 ridiculed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ridiculed	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 voyagers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 voyagers	det
6	voyagers	voyager	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rest	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snuffing	punct
8	snuffing	snuff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 voyagers	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 snuffing	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 smoke	det
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snuffing	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kitchen	compound
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smoke	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rest	punct
17	ridiculed	ridicule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 idea	det
19	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ridiculed	obj
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 returning	mark
21	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 idea	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 vessel	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vessel	det
24	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 returning	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 ridiculed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	snuff up	gerund	the voyagers not said here	the smoke	the palace kitchen		tree rules
2	ridicule	past	the rest of the voyagers	the idea			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme
3	return	gerund	the idea not said here			to the vessel result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to vessel=Result

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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