Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 87

To enable him to walk still better (for he was always on one journey or another) he carried a winged staff, around which two serpents were wriggling and twisting.

Who acts: Ulysses, two serpents · What happens: enable, walk, be, carry, wing, wriggle · To what, where: Ulysses, another, winged staff

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 (Ulysses, two serpents), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 enable	mark
2	enable	enable	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 enable	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 walk	mark
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 enable	xcomp
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 walk	xcomp
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 journey	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	15 journey	case
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 journey	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 journey	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 journey	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 journey	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 journey	nummod
15	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 enable	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 another	cc
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 carried	obl
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 another	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carried	nsubj
20	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 journey	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 staff	det
22	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 staff	amod
23	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carried	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wriggling	punct
25	around	around	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 wriggling	obl
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 serpents	nummod
28	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wriggling	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wriggling	aux
30	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 staff	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 twisting	cc
32	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 wriggling	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 enable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enable	to-infinitive		Ulysses				tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive	Ulysses not said here			still	good property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Ulysses				for one journey; always property	tree rules
4	carry	past	Ulysses	another				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme
5	wing	participle						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	wriggle	past · progressive	two serpents		a winged staff			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	twist	gerund	two serpents not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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