Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 39

The enchantress took Ulysses by the hand, and made him sit down upon this dazzling throne.

Who acts: enchantress, Ulysses · What happens: take, make, sit down · To what, where: Ulysses, dazzling throne

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 (enchantress, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 enchantress	det
2	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sit	advmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 throne	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 throne	det
16	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throne	compound
17	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the enchantress		Ulysses		by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument ulysses=Destination
2	make	past	the enchantress not said here	Ulysses				tree rules
3	sit down	infinitive	Ulysses not said here			this dazzling throne	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location

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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