Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 85

And yet they did not seem to know what they wanted, nor whether they were merely hungry, or miserable from some other cause.

Who acts: comrades · What happens: not seem, know, want, be · To what, where: other cause · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (comrades), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 seem	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 seem	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seem	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seem	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 seem	advmod
6	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seem	xcomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 wanted	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hungry	punct
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 hungry	cc
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 hungry	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hungry	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hungry	cop
17	merely	merely	ADV	_	18 hungry	advmod
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seem	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 miserable	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 miserable	cc
21	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hungry	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 cause	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 cause	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cause	amod
25	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 miserable	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not seem	past · do-support	comrades = comrade		yet		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	know	to-infinitive	comrades = comrade not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	want	past	comrades = comrade				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	is	past	comrades = comrade			hungry, merely property	tree rules
5	be		comrades = comrade not said here	some other cause			tree rules

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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