Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 11

When Ulysses reached the lawn, in front of the palace, the lions and other savage animals came bounding to meet him, and would have fawned upon him and licked his feet.

Who acts: Ulysses, lions · What happens: reach, come, bound, meet, fawn, lick · To what, where: lawn, front, Ulysses, feet

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses, lions), 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	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lawn	det
5	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 front	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 front	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lions	det
14	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 came	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 animals	cc
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 animals	amod
17	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 animals	amod
18	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lions	conj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 came	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 meet	mark
22	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bounding	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 meet	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fawned	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fawned	cc
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fawned	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 fawned	aux
28	fawned	fawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 came	parataxis
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fawned	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 licked	cc
32	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fawned	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 feet	nmod:poss
34	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 licked	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Ulysses	the lawn	front of the palace		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lawn=Theme
2	come	past	the lions and other savage animals				tree rules
3	bound	gerund	the lions and other savage animals not said here				tree rules
4	meet	to-infinitive	the lions and other savage animals not said here	Ulysses			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	fawn	would · perfect				upon Ulysses	vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lick	past		Ulysses's feet			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Source

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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