Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 29

In this new part, Ulysses saw his two and twenty friends represented as sitting on cushions and canopied thrones, greedily devouring dainties, and quaffing deep draughts of wine.

Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: see, represent, sit, canopy, devour, quaff · To what, where: two friends, new part, cushions, deep draughts

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), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 part	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 part	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 part	amod
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 part	punct
6	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friends	nmod:poss
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 friends	nummod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 twenty	cc
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 two	conj
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obj
13	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 friends	acl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 sitting	mark
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 represented	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 cushions	case
17	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sitting	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thrones	cc
19	canopied	canopy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 thrones	amod
20	thrones	throne	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cushions	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dainties	punct
22	greedily	greedily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dainties	amod
23	devouring	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 dainties	amod
24	dainties	dainty	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cushions	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 quaffing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 quaffing	cc
27	quaffing	quaff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	conj
28	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 draughts	amod
29	draughts	draught	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 quaffing	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 wine	case
31	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 draughts	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	Ulysses	Ulysses's two friends	this new part	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
2	represent	participle		Ulysses's two friends not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	sit	gerund			cushions and canopied thrones and greedily devouring dainties	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cushion=Location
4	canopy	participle				tree rules
5	devour	gerund				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	quaff	gerund	Ulysses not said here	deep draughts of wine		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient

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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