Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 27

But at length they began to give over, from mere incapacity to hold any more.

Who acts: gallons · What happens: begin, give over, hold · To what, where: length, mere incapacity

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 began	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 length	case
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	over	over	ADV	_	7 give	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 incapacity	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 incapacity	case
11	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 incapacity	amod
12	incapacity	incapacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hold	mark
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 incapacity	acl
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 more	det
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 hold	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	gallons = gallon		length		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	give over	to-infinitive	gallons = gallon not said here	mere incapacity		over property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incapacity=Theme
3	hold	to-infinitive	gallons = gallon not said here	mere incapacity not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme

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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