Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 73
Had his followers dared, they would have detained him by force.
Who acts: followers, force · What happens: have, dare, detain · To what, where: followers
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, force), 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 dared | nsubj |
| 4 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Had | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 detained | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 detained | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 detained | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 detained | aux |
| 9 | detained | detain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Had | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 detained | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 force | case |
| 12 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 detained | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | dare | past | Eurylochus's followers | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | detain | would · perfect · passive | force | followers = follower | tree rules |
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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