Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 35

The biggest lion licked the feet of Eurylochus; and every other lion, and every wolf and tiger, singled out one of his two and twenty followers, whom the beast fondled as if he loved him better than a beef bone.

Who acts: biggest lion, wolf, beast, Eurylochus · What happens: lick, single out, fondle, love · To what, where: feet, one, man

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 (biggest lion, wolf, beast, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 lion	amod
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 licked	nsubj
4	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feet	det
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 licked	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Eurylochus	case
8	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 feet	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 lion	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lion	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 lion	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lion	amod
13	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 licked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 singled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 singled	cc
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 wolf	det
17	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 singled	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tiger	cc
19	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wolf	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wolf	punct
21	singled	single	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 licked	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 singled	compound:prt
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 singled	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 followers	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 followers	nmod:poss
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 followers	nummod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 twenty	cc
28	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 two	conj
29	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fondled	punct
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 fondled	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beast	det
33	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fondled	nsubj
34	fondled	fondle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 singled	conj
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 loved	mark
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 loved	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 loved	nsubj
38	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fondled	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 loved	obj
40	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 loved	xcomp
41	than	than	ADP	_	44 bone	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 bone	det
43	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bone	compound
44	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 better	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 licked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lick	past	the biggest lion	the feet of Eurylochus	every other lion obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Source
2	single out	past	every wolf and tiger	one of Eurylochus's two followers		tree rules
3	fondle	past	the beast			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Experiencer
4	love	past	Eurylochus	man	good property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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