Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 75
But we must leave the prudent Eurylochus waiting in the outer hall, and follow his friends into the inner secrecy of the palace.
Who acts: we · What happens: leave, wait, follow · To what, where: prudent Eurylochus, outer hall, friends, inner secrecy
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 (we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 leave | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Eurylochus | det |
| 6 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Eurylochus | amod |
| 7 | Eurylochus | Eurylochus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 leave | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hall | det |
| 11 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hall | amod |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waiting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 follow | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 follow | cc |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 follow | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 secrecy | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 secrecy | det |
| 20 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 secrecy | amod |
| 21 | secrecy | secrecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follow | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 secrecy | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | must | we | the prudent Eurylochus | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eurylochus=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | we not said here | the outer hall | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | infinitive | we not said here | Eurylochus's friends | the inner secrecy of the palace | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Theme into secrecy=Trajectory |
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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