Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 46

After holding a council, the captains ordered their troops to collect sticks, straws, dry weeds, and whatever combustible stuff they could find, and make a pile of it, heaping it high around the head of Hercules.

Who acts: captains, troops, combustible stuff · What happens: hold, order, collect, find, make, heap · To what, where: council, troops, sticks, pile, stuff, head

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., 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 (captains, troops, combustible stuff), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 holding	mark
2	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ordered	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 council	det
4	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holding	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 holding	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 captains	det
7	captains	captain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ordered	nsubj
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 troops	nmod:poss
10	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 ordered	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 collect	mark
12	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ordered	xcomp
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 collect	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 straws	punct
15	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sticks	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 weeds	punct
17	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 weeds	amod
18	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sticks	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whatever	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 whatever	cc
21	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ordered	parataxis
22	combustible	combustible	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stuff	compound
23	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	nsubj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 whatever	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ordered	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pile	det
31	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pile	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 heaping	punct
35	heaping	heap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 make	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 heaping	obj
37	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 heaping	xcomp
38	around	around	ADP	_	40 head	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 head	det
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 heaping	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 Hercules	case
42	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 head	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund	the captains not said here	a council			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme
2	order	past	the captains	captains's troops			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent troops=Recipient clause=Topic
3	collect not said to happen	to-infinitive	captains's troops not said here	sticks and straws and dry weeds			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
4	find	could	combustible stuff				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	make	infinitive	the captains not said here	a pile of stuff			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pile=Product
6	heap	gerund	the captains not said here	stuff	the head of Hercules	high property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme around head=Destination

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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