Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 74
But King Ulysses frowned sternly on them, and shook his spear, and bade them stop him at their peril.
Who acts: King, bade, followers · What happens: frown, shake, stop, peril · To what, where: spear, Eurylochus, peril
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 (King, bade, followers), 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 | _ | 4 frowned | cc |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 frowned | nsubj |
| 3 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | frowned | frown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 4 frowned | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 frowned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shook | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frowned | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 spear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shook | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stop | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stop | cc |
| 15 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stop | nsubj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bade | obj |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frowned | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stop | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 peril | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 peril | nmod:poss |
| 21 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stop | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frown | past | King | on followers = follower; sternly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | King not said here | Eurylochus's spear | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | bade | Eurylochus | followers's peril | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | peril | followers = follower | nom peril «state transitive»: poss=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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