Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 62

As for his companions, he could not imagine what had become of them, unless they had been given to the swine to be devoured alive.

Who acts: Eurylochus · What happens: not imagine, become, give, devour · To what, where: companions, swine

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 (Eurylochus), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 companions	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 companions	nmod:poss
4	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 imagine	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 companions	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 imagine	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 imagine	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 imagine	advmod
9	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 become	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
12	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 imagine	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 become	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 given	punct
16	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	20 given	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 given	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 given	aux:pass
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 imagine	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 swine	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 swine	det
23	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	26 devoured	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 devoured	aux:pass
26	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 swine	acl
27	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 devoured	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not imagine	could	Eurylochus			as Eurylochus's companions	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	become	past · perfect				of companions = companion	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	give a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		companions = companion	the swine		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to swine=Recipient
4	devour	to-infinitive · passive				alive property	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»

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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