Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 59
"Remember," said Eurylochus, "that it was a young maiden who beguiled three of our friends into the palace of the king of the Laestrygons, who ate up one of them in the twinkling of an eye."
Who acts: Eurylochus, harm, young maiden, Laestrygons · What happens: remember, say, be, beguile, eat up · To what, where: young maiden, three, palace, one, twinkling · Speech: someone speaks here
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, harm, young maiden, Laestrygons), 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 | _ | 2 Remember | punct |
| 2 | Remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remember | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remember | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Eurylochus | Eurylochus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 maiden | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 maiden | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 maiden | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 maiden | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 maiden | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 maiden | amod |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 beguiled | nsubj |
| 16 | beguiled | beguile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 beguiled | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 three | nmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beguiled | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 palace | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Laestrygons | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Laestrygons | det |
| 29 | Laestrygons | Laestrygon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 king | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ate | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 ate | nsubj |
| 32 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Laestrygons | acl:relcl |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 ate | compound:prt |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 ate | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 one | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 twinkling | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 twinkling | det |
| 39 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ate | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 eye | case |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 eye | det |
| 42 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 twinkling | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 maiden | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Eurylochus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | harm | a young maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beguile in a quote | past | a young maiden | three of our friends | the palace of the king of the Laestrygons | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus three=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | eat up in a quote | past | the Laestrygons | one of maidens | the twinkling of a eye | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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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