Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 49

Everything being in readiness, a torch was applied to the pile, which immediately burst into flames, and soon waxed hot enough to roast the enemy, had he but chosen to lie still.

Who acts: Everything, readiness · What happens: be, apply, burst, wax, roast, have · To what, where: readiness, torch, pile, flames, enemy, Hercules

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 (Everything, readiness), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 readiness	nsubj
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 readiness	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 readiness	case
4	readiness	readiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 applied	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 torch	det
7	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 applied	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 applied	aux:pass
9	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 readiness	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 pile	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pile	det
12	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 applied	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 burst	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 burst	obj
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	16 burst	advmod
16	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pile	acl:relcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 flames	case
18	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 burst	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 waxed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 waxed	cc
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 waxed	advmod
22	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 readiness	parataxis
23	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 waxed	xcomp
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 hot	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 roast	mark
26	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hot	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 enemy	det
28	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 roast	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 waxed	conj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	obj
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 chosen	cc
33	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 had	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 lie	mark
35	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 chosen	xcomp
36	still	still	ADV	_	35 lie	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 readiness	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Everything		readiness			tree rules
2	apply	past · passive	readiness not said here	a torch			to the pile	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	burst	present		the pile	flames		immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme
4	wax	past					hot, soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	roast	to-infinitive		the enemy				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient
6	have	past		Hercules				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	choose	participle						tree rules
8	lie	to-infinitive				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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