Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 23

But Eurylochus told them that he felt as if he were walking in a dream.

Who acts: Eurylochus · What happens: tell, feel, walk · To what, where: fellows, dream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eurylochus), 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	_	3 told	cc
2	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 felt	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 felt	nsubj
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 walking	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 walking	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walking	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walking	aux
12	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 felt	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 dream	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dream	det
15	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Eurylochus	fellows = fellow		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	feel	past	Eurylochus			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	walk	past · progressive	Eurylochus		a dream	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Trajectory

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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