Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 55

Upon hearing this, the Argonauts spread a plentiful feast on the sea-shore, well knowing, from what the blind king said of their greediness, that the Harpies would snuff up the scent of the victuals, and quickly come to steal them away.

Who acts: Argonauts, blind king, Harpies · What happens: hear, spread, know, say, snuff up, come · To what, where: this, plentiful feast, sea shore, scent, Harpies, victuals · 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 (Argonauts, blind king, Harpies), 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 spread	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 hearing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hearing	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Argonauts	det
6	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spread	nsubj
7	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 feast	det
9	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feast	amod
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 shore	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shore	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shore	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sea	punct
15	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knowing	punct
17	well	well	INTJ	_	18 knowing	discourse
18	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 spread	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 what	punct
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 what	case
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 knowing	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
23	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 king	amod
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 greediness	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 greediness	nmod:poss
28	greediness	greediness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 snuff	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 snuff	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Harpies	det
32	Harpies	harpy	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 snuff	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 snuff	aux
34	snuff	snuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 snuff	compound:prt
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 scent	det
37	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 snuff	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 victuals	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 victuals	det
40	victuals	victual	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 scent	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 come	cc
43	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	44 come	advmod
44	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 snuff	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 steal	mark
46	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 come	xcomp
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 steal	obj
48	away	away	ADV	_	46 steal	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the Argonauts not said here	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	spread	past	the Argonauts	a plentiful feast	the sea shore		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feast=Theme on shore=Destination
3	know	gerund	the Argonauts not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	the blind king			of Argonauts's greediness	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	snuff up	would	the Harpies	the scent of the victuals			tree rules
6	come	infinitive	the Harpies not said here			quickly property	tree rules
7	steal away	to-infinitive	the Harpies not said here	Harpies = harpy		away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
8	scent			the victuals			nom scent «cognition transitive»: 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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