Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 111

By his advice, the heroes had seated themselves on the benches of the galley, with their oars held perpendicularly, ready to let fall into the water.

Who acts: advice · What happens: seat, hold, let, fall · To what, where: heroes, benches, oars, water

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (advice), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 advice	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 advice	nmod:poss
3	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seated	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 advice	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heroes	det
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seated	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seated	aux
8	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 seated	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 benches	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 benches	det
12	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seated	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 galley	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 galley	det
15	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 benches	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 oars	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 oars	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 oars	nmod:poss
19	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seated	obl
20	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 oars	acl
21	perpendicularly	perpendicularly	ADV	_	20 held	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ready	punct
23	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 oars	amod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 let	mark
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ready	xcomp
26	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fall	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past · perfect · passive	bade's advice	the heroes	the benches of the galley	with heroes's oars	tree rules
2	hold	participle		heroes's oars not said here		perpendicularly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	to-infinitive	bade's advice not said here				tree rules
4	fall	infinitive	bade's advice not said here			into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result

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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