Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 89

At this kind invitation, the hungry mariners were quite overjoyed; and one of them, taking upon himself to be spokesman, assured their hospitable hostess that any hour of the day was dinner time with them, whenever they could get flesh to put in the pot, and fire to boil it with.

Who acts: one, that, mariners, flesh · What happens: overjoy, take, be, assure, get, put · To what, where: hungry mariners, kind invitation, spokesman, hospitable hostess, dinner time, flesh

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 (one, that, mariners, flesh), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 invitation	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 invitation	det
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 invitation	amod
4	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 overjoyed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 invitation	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mariners	det
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mariners	amod
8	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 overjoyed	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 overjoyed	aux:pass
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 overjoyed	advmod
11	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 taking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taking	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 taking	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taking	punct
18	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 overjoyed	advcl
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 taking	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	23 spokesman	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 spokesman	cop
23	spokesman	spokesman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 assured	punct
25	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 overjoyed	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hostess	nmod:poss
27	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hostess	amod
28	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 assured	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 time	nsubj
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 hour	det
31	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 time	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 day	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 day	det
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hour	nmod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 time	cop
36	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 time	compound
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hostess	nmod
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 time	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 get	punct
41	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 get	advmod
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 get	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 get	aux
44	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 time	parataxis
45	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 get	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 put	mark
47	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 get	xcomp
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 pot	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 pot	det
50	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 fire	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 fire	cc
53	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 assured	obl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 boil	mark
55	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 assured	advcl
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 boil	obj
57	with	with	ADP	_	55 boil	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overjoy	past · passive		the hungry mariners	this kind invitation		tree rules
2	take	gerund	one of mariners			upon flesh	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	one of mariners not said here	spokesman			tree rules
4	assure	past		mariners's hospitable hostess		fire obl	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hostess=Recipient
5	is a	past	that	dinner time		with mariners = mariner	tree rules
6	get	could	mariners = mariner	flesh		whenever property	tree rules
7	put	to-infinitive	flesh not said here		the pot		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pot=Destination
8	boil	to-infinitive		hostess			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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