Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 24

"If I am really awake," continued he, "then, in my opinion, we are on the point of meeting with some stranger adventure than any that befell us in the cave of Polyphemus, or among the gigantic man-eating Laestrygons, or in the windy palace of King Aeolus, which stands on a brazen-walled island.

Who acts: Eurylochus, we, stranger adventure, windy palace, my · What happens: be, continue, befall, eat, stand, wall · To what, where: opinion, point, us, cave, walled island

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, we, stranger adventure, windy palace), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 awake	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 awake	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 awake	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 awake	advmod
6	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 continued	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 awake	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 awake	punct
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 continued	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 continued	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 opinion	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 opinion	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 opinion	nmod:poss
17	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 point	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 point	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 point	cop
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 point	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 point	det
23	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 meeting	case
25	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 point	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 adventure	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 adventure	det
28	stranger	strange	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 adventure	amod
29	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 point	nmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 any	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 adventure	nmod
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 befell	nsubj
33	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 adventure	acl:relcl
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 befell	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 cave	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cave	det
37	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 befell	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Polyphemus	case
39	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 cave	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Laestrygons	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 Laestrygons	cc
42	among	among	ADP	_	48 Laestrygons	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Laestrygons	det
44	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Laestrygons	amod
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 eating	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 man	punct
47	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 Laestrygons	amod
48	Laestrygons	laestrygon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 continued	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 palace	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 palace	cc
51	in	in	ADP	_	54 palace	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 palace	det
53	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 palace	amod
54	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	parataxis
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 Aeolus	case
56	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 Aeolus	compound
57	Aeolus	Aeolus	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 palace	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 stands	punct
59	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 stands	nsubj
60	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 palace	conj
61	on	on	ADP	_	66 island	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 island	det
63	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 walled	compound
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 brazen	punct
65	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 island	amod
66	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 stands	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Eurylochus				awake property	tree rules
2	continue	past	Eurylochus		my opinion	then	among the gigantic eating Laestrygons	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	we		the point		of meeting; with some stranger adventure than any	tree rules
4	befall in a quote	past	some stranger adventure than any	us	the cave of Polyphemus			tree rules
5	eat in a quote	gerund						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stand in a quote	present	the windy palace of King Aeolus		a walled island			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on island=Location
7	wall in a quote	participle						tree rules
8	opine in a quote		my					nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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