Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 62
Eurylochus, meanwhile, had stepped behind a pillar.
What happens: step · To what, where: Eurylochus, pillar
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: 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 | Eurylochus | Eurylochus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eurylochus | punct |
| 3 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 6 stepped | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meanwhile | punct |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stepped | aux |
| 6 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 pillar | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pillar | det |
| 9 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past · perfect · passive | Eurylochus | a pillar | meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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