Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 19

At last, quite wearied out, they sat themselves down on the shore exceedingly disconsolate, and thinking that the vessel must be left to rot and fall in pieces, and that they must either swim across the sea or lose the Golden Fleece.

Who acts: heroes, vessel · What happens: weary out, sit down, think, leave, rot, fall · To what, where: last, heroes, shore, vessel, pieces, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroes, vessel), 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	At	at	SCONJ	_	5 wearied	mark
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wearied	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wearied	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 wearied	advmod
5	wearied	weary	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sat	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 wearied	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wearied	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 sat	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 shore	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shore	det
14	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
15	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	16 disconsolate	advmod
16	disconsolate	disconsolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shore	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thinking	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thinking	cc
19	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sat	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 left	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 vessel	det
22	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 left	nsubj:pass
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 left	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 left	aux:pass
25	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 thinking	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rot	mark
27	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 left	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fall	cc
29	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 rot	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 pieces	case
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fall	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 swim	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 swim	cc
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 swim	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 swim	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 swim	aux
37	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 swim	advmod
38	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sat	conj
39	across	across	ADP	_	41 sea	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sea	det
41	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 swim	obl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 lose	cc
43	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Fleece	det
45	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Fleece	amod
46	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 lose	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weary out	participle · passive		last			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	sit down	past	heroes = hero	heroes = hero	the shore and disconsolate		tree rules
3	think speech: other	gerund	heroes = hero not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	leave	must · passive		the vessel			tree rules
5	rot	to-infinitive	the vessel not said here				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fall	infinitive	the vessel not said here		pieces		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in piece=Location
7	swim	must	heroes = hero		the sea	either property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sea=Trajectory
8	lose	present	heroes = hero not said here	the Golden Fleece			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=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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