Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 72
Eurylochus could not conceive what had happened, unless a drove of swine had broken into the palace, attracted by the smell of the feast.
Who acts: Eurylochus, feast · What happens: not conceive, happen, drive, break, attract, smell · To what, where: palace
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, feast), 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 | 4 conceive | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 conceive | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 conceive | advmod |
| 4 | conceive | conceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 conceive | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 11 drove | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drove | det |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 swine | case |
| 13 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broken | obl |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 broken | aux |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 drove | ccomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broken | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 attracted | punct |
| 20 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 broken | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 smell | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 smell | det |
| 23 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 attracted | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 feast | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 feast | det |
| 26 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 smell | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not conceive | could | Eurylochus | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | drive a condition, not said to happen | past | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | ||||||
| 4 | break | past · perfect | into the palace result; of swine | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into palace=Result | |||||
| 5 | attract | participle | by the smell of the feast | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | smell | the feast | nom smell «cognition 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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