Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 28

We would not turn back, though we were certain that the king of the Laestrygons, as big as a mountain, would sit at the head of the table, and huge Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops, at its foot."

Who acts: We, king · What happens: not turn back, be, sit · To what, where: huge Polyphemus, head

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 (We, king), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 certain	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 certain	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 certain	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 certain	cop
10	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 sit	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sit	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Laestrygons	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Laestrygons	det
16	Laestrygons	Laestrygon	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 king	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 big	punct
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 big	advmod
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 king	amod
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 mountain	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 mountain	det
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 big	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 king	punct
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sit	aux
25	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 certain	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 head	det
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sit	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 table	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 table	det
31	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 head	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Polyphemus	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Polyphemus	cc
34	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Polyphemus	amod
35	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sit	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Cyclops	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Cyclops	det
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 eyed	nummod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 one	punct
40	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Cyclops	amod
41	Cyclops	cyclops	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Polyphemus	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 foot	punct
43	at	at	ADP	_	45 foot	case
44	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 foot	nmod:poss
45	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sit	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not turn back	would	We				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	we			certain property	tree rules
3	sit	would	the king of the Laestrygons	huge Polyphemus and the eyed Cyclops	the head of the table	at table's foot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=Location

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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