Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 42

Each man (as he still supposed himself to be) essayed to give a cry of surprise, but found that he could merely grunt, and that, in a word, he was just such another beast as his companions.

Who acts: comrade, man, surprise · What happens: suppose, be, essay, give, find, grunt · To what, where: comrade, cry, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (comrade, man, surprise), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 essayed	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 supposed	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 supposed	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 supposed	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 supposed	advmod
7	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 supposed	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 be	mark
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 supposed	xcomp
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 supposed	punct
12	essayed	essay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 essayed	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cry	det
16	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 surprise	case
18	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cry	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 essayed	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 grunt	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 grunt	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 grunt	aux
25	merely	merely	ADV	_	26 grunt	advmod
26	grunt	grunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 found	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 that	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 that	cc
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 grunt	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 word	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 word	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 word	det
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grunt	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 beast	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 such	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 such	cop
37	just	just	ADV	_	38 such	advmod
38	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	40 beast	amod
39	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	40 beast	det
40	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 word	appos
41	as	as	ADP	_	43 companions	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 companions	nmod:poss
43	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 beast	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 essayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	past	comrade	comrade	still		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
2	be	to-infinitive	comrade not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	essay	past	each man				tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	each man not said here	a cry of surprise			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
5	find	past	each man not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	grunt	could	comrade	that		merely property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	comrade			such property	tree rules
8	cry		surprise				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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