--- title: When they arrived in the city they discovered to their consternation… — Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by… · tree and pragmatics description: When they arrived in the city they discovered to their consternation that they had set foot in the land of the Laestrygones, a race of fierce and gigantic cannibals, governed by their king Antiphates. Who acts: opinions, fierce cannibals. A sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/3103/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/) / 3103 # Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 3103 When they arrived in the city they discovered to their consternation that they had set foot in the land of the Laestrygones, a race of fierce and gigantic cannibals, governed by their king Antiphates. **Who acts:** opinions, fierce cannibals · **What happens:** arrive, discover, set, govern, race · **To what, where:** city, foot, land, fierce cannibals This is a sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opinions, fierce cannibals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg22381:3103 # text = When they arrived in the city they discovered to their consternation that they had set foot in the land of the Laestrygones, a race of fierce and gigantic cannibals, governed by their king Antiphates. # source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 consternation consternation NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ _ 16 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Laestrygones Laestrygones PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 gigantic gigantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 cannibals cannibal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 governed govern VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 Antiphates Antiphates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | opinions *= opinion* | | | the city | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **discover** | past | opinions *= opinion* | | | | | to opinions's consternation | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **set** | past · perfect | opinions *= opinion* | foot | | the land of the Laestrygones | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in land=Destination | | 4 | **govern** | participle | | fierce cannibals *not said here* | | | | by opinions's king | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **race** | | fierce cannibals | | | | | | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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:** «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», Project Gutenberg book 22381 (public domain in the USA). **Annotation:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`mova-tales-silver-en.conllu`), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence `gutenberg:pg22381:3103`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.3/). - ← previous: [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…, 3005](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/3005/) - next →: [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…, 3330](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/3330/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/)