Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 49

Yet it was not so sweet as the song of the Sirens, those bird-like damsels who wanted to tempt us on the rocks, so that our vessel might be wrecked, and our bones left whitening along the shore."

Who acts: head, like damsels, bones, Sirens · What happens: not be, want, tempt, wreck, leave, whiten · To what, where: us, rocks, vessel

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 (head, like damsels, bones, Sirens), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	6 sweet	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sweet	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sweet	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sweet	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 sweet	advmod
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 song	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 song	det
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweet	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Sirens	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sirens	det
12	Sirens	Siren	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 song	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 damsels	punct
14	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 damsels	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 like	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 bird	punct
17	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 damsels	amod
18	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Sirens	appos
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 damsels	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tempt	mark
22	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tempt	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 rocks	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rocks	det
26	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tempt	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wrecked	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 wrecked	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 vessel	nmod:poss
31	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wrecked	nsubj:pass
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 wrecked	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 wrecked	aux:pass
34	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 tempt	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 left	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 left	cc
37	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 bones	nmod:poss
38	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 left	nsubj
39	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sweet	advcl
40	whitening	whiten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 left	xcomp
41	along	along	ADP	_	43 shore	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 shore	det
43	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 whitening	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sweet	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sweet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	head				as the song of the Sirens; sweet property	tree rules
2	want	past	that like damsels					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	tempt not said to happen	to-infinitive	that like damsels not said here		us	the rocks		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
4	wreck	might · passive		our vessel				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	leave	past	our bones					tree rules
6	whiten	gerund	our bones not said here				along the shore	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	sing		the Sirens					nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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