Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 33
The terrified mariners started back, expecting no better fate than to be torn to pieces and devoured.
Who acts: terrified mariners · What happens: start back, expect, tear, devour · To what, where: better fate, pieces
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 (terrified mariners), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mariners | det |
| 2 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mariners | amod |
| 3 | mariners | mariner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 started | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 expecting | punct |
| 7 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 started | advcl |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 better | advmod |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 fate | amod |
| 10 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expecting | obj |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 torn | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 torn | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 torn | aux:pass |
| 14 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 expecting | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 pieces | case |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 torn | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 devoured | cc |
| 18 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 torn | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start back | past | the terrified mariners | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | expect | gerund | the terrified mariners not said here | better fate | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tear | to-infinitive · passive | the terrified mariners not said here | pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: to piece=Destination | ||||
| 4 | devour | participle | the terrified mariners not said here | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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