Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 65

When his followers saw their wise leader making these preparations, they inquired whither he was going, and earnestly besought him not to leave them.

Who acts: followers, wise leader, Ulysses · What happens: see, make, inquire, go, beseech, not leave · To what, where: wise leader, preparations, Ulysses, followers · 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 (followers, wise leader, Ulysses), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 followers	nmod:poss
3	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 inquired	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 leader	nmod:poss
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leader	amod
7	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
8	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saw	xcomp
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 preparations	det
10	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 making	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 inquired	nsubj
13	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	17 going	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 inquired	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 besought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 besought	cc
20	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	21 besought	advmod
21	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 inquired	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 besought	obj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 leave	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 leave	mark
25	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 besought	ccomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 leave	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Ulysses's followers	followers's wise leader		tree rules
2	make	gerund	followers's wise leader not said here	this preparations		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset preparation=Product
3	inquire speech: other	past	followers = follower			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past · progressive	Ulysses		whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	beseech	past	followers = follower not said here	Ulysses	earnestly property	tree rules
6	not leave	to-infinitive	followers = follower not said here	followers = follower		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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