Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 26

They forgot all about their homes, and their wives and children, and all about Ulysses, and everything else, except this banquet, at which they wanted to keep feasting forever.

Who acts: gallons · What happens: forget, want, keep, feast · To what, where: homes

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gallons), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 homes	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 homes	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 homes	nmod:poss
6	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgot	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wives	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wives	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wives	nmod:poss
10	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgot	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 children	cc
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wives	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Ulysses	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Ulysses	cc
15	all	all	ADV	_	17 Ulysses	advmod
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 Ulysses	case
17	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 everything	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 everything	cc
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 Ulysses	appos
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 everything	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 banquet	punct
23	except	except	ADP	_	25 banquet	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 banquet	det
25	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wanted	punct
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 wanted	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 keep	mark
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wanted	xcomp
33	feasting	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 keep	xcomp
34	forever	forever	ADV	_	33 feasting	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past	gallons = gallon	gallons's homes	gallons's wives and children obl	tree rules
2	want	past	gallons = gallon			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	gallons = gallon not said here			tree rules
4	feast	gerund	gallons = gallon not said here		forever property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: 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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