Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 35

So Ulysses followed her into the oval saloon, where his two and twenty comrades had devoured the banquet, which ended so disastrously for themselves.

Who acts: Ulysses, two comrades, banquet · What happens: follow, devour, end · To what, where: Deign, oval saloon, banquet

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, two comrades, banquet), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 followed	advmod
2	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 followed	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 saloon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 saloon	det
7	oval	oval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saloon	amod
8	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 devoured	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 devoured	advmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 comrades	nmod:poss
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 comrades	nummod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 twenty	cc
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 two	conj
15	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 devoured	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 devoured	aux
17	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 saloon	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 banquet	det
19	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 devoured	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ended	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 ended	nsubj
22	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 banquet	acl:relcl
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 disastrously	advmod
24	disastrously	disastrously	ADV	_	22 ended	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 themselves	case
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 ended	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Ulysses	Deign	the oval saloon		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme into saloon=Trajectory
2	devour	past · perfect	Ulysses's two comrades	the banquet			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Patient
3	end	past	the banquet			for comrades = comrade; disastrously property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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