Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 83

Lastly, there they were, sitting on the desolate shore of this very island, hungry and downcast, and looking ruefully at the bare bones of the stag which they devoured yesterday.

Who acts: voyagers, stag · What happens: sit, desolate, look, devour · To what, where: desolate shore

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 (voyagers, stag), 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	Lastly	lastly	ADV	_	7 sitting	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lastly	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 sitting	expl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sitting	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 shore	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shore	det
10	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 shore	compound
11	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 island	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 island	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 island	advmod
15	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shore	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hungry	punct
17	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 island	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 downcast	cc
19	downcast	downcast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hungry	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looking	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looking	cc
22	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	advcl
23	ruefully	ruefully	ADV	_	22 looking	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 bones	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bones	det
26	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bones	amod
27	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 looking	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 stag	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stag	det
30	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bones	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 devoured	nsubj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 devoured	nsubj
33	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stag	acl:relcl
34	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 devoured	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	voyagers = voyager	the desolate shore of this island; there		lastly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location
2	desolate	infinitive					tree rules
3	look	gerund	voyagers = voyager not said here			at the bare bones of the stag; ruefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bone=Theme
4	devour	past	the stag		yesterday		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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