Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 75

But Ulysses would not be pacified until Circe had taken a solemn oath to change back his companions, and as many others as he should direct, from their present forms of beast or bird into their former shapes of men.

Who acts: Ulysses, others · What happens: not pacify, take, change back, direct, form · To what, where: Ulysses, Circe, companions, many others, present forms, beast

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, others), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 pacified	cc
2	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pacified	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pacified	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 pacified	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pacified	aux:pass
6	pacified	pacify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 taken	mark
8	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 taken	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pacified	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 oath	det
12	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 oath	amod
13	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 change	mark
15	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 oath	acl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 change	advmod
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 companions	nmod:poss
18	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 change	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 others	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 others	cc
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 many	advmod
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 others	amod
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pacified	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 direct	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 direct	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 direct	aux
27	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 others	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 forms	punct
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 forms	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 forms	nmod:poss
31	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 forms	amod
32	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 direct	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 beast	case
34	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 forms	nmod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 bird	cc
36	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beast	conj
37	into	into	ADP	_	40 shapes	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 shapes	nmod:poss
39	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 shapes	amod
40	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 direct	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 men	case
42	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 shapes	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pacified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not pacify	would · passive		Ulysses		many others obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	take	past · perfect · passive		Circe			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme oath=Destination
3	change back	to-infinitive		Ulysses's companions			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Patient
4	direct	should	Ulysses	many others not said here	others's present forms of beast or bird	into beasts's former shapes of men	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality
5	form		others = other	beast or bird			nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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