Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 5, sentence 5
Ulysses ordered Circe instantly to make a king of this good little fowl, and leave him exactly as she found him.
Who acts: Ulysses, Circe · What happens: order, make, leave, find · To what, where: Circe, king, Ulysses
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses, Circe), 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 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Circe | Circe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 4 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 2 ordered | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ordered | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fowl | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fowl | nsubj |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fowl | amod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fowl | amod |
| 13 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leave | cc |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | obj |
| 18 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 21 found | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 found | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 leave | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Ulysses | Circe | instantly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circe=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Ulysses not said here | a king of good little fowl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | Ulysses not said here | Ulysses | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Circe | Ulysses | exactly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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